A PHILOSOPHICAL Discourse. 17 
may with propriety be reputed the genuine parent of the new 
one. Such is the connection between them, and fuch the de- 
pendence of this upon the other, that as moft of its prefent 
members are fons of HARVARD, foits future vernacular mem- 
- bers will probably, for the moft part, be fupplied from the fame 
ftock ; > at estt fo long as HARvARD’s fons fhall continue to 
ec 1 for fcientific accomplifhments : which, it is fer- 
ven m3 tnt will be'as longas fiende, or any trait of it, remains _ 
in the world : or as PE as —— the great fubject of it, 
endures. i 
Derived from TR a rateffisqe; and animated by the noble 
example of other philofophical inftitutions, may this fociety 
contribute its full fhare to the common ftock of knowledge ; 
Dos ) ege pt the hott Loren guatiois, to nent the 
MTM Y * w ipa ng iud 
Cunat, methigks I read in the sities pages of a Ameri- 
can Livy, or Thucydides, to the following. effect.. DUE 
A mu is now Lr WAS the commencement of Ameri- 
It was not to e expected, that our seculo, involved as 
they y were ii in a civil Wars, sold, give Any attention to literature 
iftreffes, and animated 
by the generous priiis, which liberty : and op ae EE 
a inftituted the excellent fociety, called The "American 
one presa fuc rales, and principles ae con- : 
j G dud 
