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the objects of Inquiry or information, will, no doubt, 

 afford very interesting results. To this growing mass 

 of instruction the managers will add a library of all the 

 best treatises on the subjects for which this institution 

 is established, as well as those publications of acade- 

 mies and journals of repute which exhibit the trans- 

 actions of ingenious men in every part of the world. 



In order to carry into effect the second object of the 

 Institution, namely, that of teaching the application of 

 science to the useful purposes of life, a lecture -room will 

 be fitted up for philosophical lectures and experiments, 

 and a complete laboratory and philosophical apparatus, 

 with the necessary instruments for making chemical 

 and philosophical experiments ; and men of the first 

 eminence in science will be engaged to officiate in this 

 essential department. 



It may appear necessary to give some statement or 

 enumeration of the several views to which the attention 

 and the powers of this Institution will be directed. 

 Such an enumeration, if made with only a small de- 

 gree of the precision to which it is entitled, would 

 grasp at once the whole extent and disposition of na- 

 tional industry. That man must labour for his food, 

 and defend himself from the inclemencies of the sea- 

 sons, from the attacks of ferocious animals, and from 

 the still more pernicious operations and influence of 

 vice in his fellow-creatures, are inevitable decrees of 

 Providence! He must be nourished, he must be 

 clothed: houses, towns, fortresses, i*oads, canals, car- 

 riages, ships, instruments of manufacture, weapons of 

 offence and defence, the subdivision of labour, com- 

 mercial intercourse, and political regulation, — all these 

 must be established. This rapid association of words 



