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s them im^ t,he world is but another Word, another Eevelation, whose every 



le who Iflglion is fraught with deepest meaning, and whose eve>ry portion it is 



Irue basi}lig^,|iigh aim of the naturalist to study and unfold, no phenomenon being 



ect ot (obscure and no object so insignificant as to be deemed unworthy of 



a maniljig; notice, if haply thereby he may be led to read that VV(^rd aright.* 



ui our c ;^t I must not delay you longer with the consideration of this subject 



il sympaiejdi. I have, I think, said enough to convince you of its importance, 



logne or ; jijuiains for you to see that it is not again forgotten. ^lay I not in- 



)ressed tt^^e the hope — a hope, the fidfilment of which would, 1 assure you, be 



)us edificfcjf^ost acceptable reward for anything I have myself done or may be 



ual cultiiljll to do in this direction, — that the day is not far distant when the 



le revelatiijaiDnple so nobly set by the Thayers, the Peabodys, the A'^assars and the 



ings for siJogfteUs of the neighboring llepublic may find worthy imitators here, 



embrace vafifthat a Museum may, with their assistance, arise amoTig us, which 



costly, sohaQ be not only a monument of their liberality, but a source of plea- 



ain the nixan, pride and usefulness to every inhabitant of this City and l*rovince? 



the mate: ^ 



the arraii. ^ 

 e most fitt; ?j 

 ly a tender , », 

 Xature its- <^% 



ise that ill ft i»ay be of interest to those by whom the foregoing address may be 

 >wer of a t^WOSed, and to whom the objects therein advocated may commend 

 lut an inlii]li!Wnselves, to know something of the actual condition and wants of the 

 led in oro'a^WVersity Museum as it now stands, and of the direction in which, 

 )ut the ideai'i^^i increased accommodations, it may be profitably enlarged. With 

 ur collecti'**8 object in view I may be permitted to append the following extracts 

 latic arraiijf**^ ^^Y Enccenial address of 18(59 : — 



flection of "The varied and very valuable collection now contained within the 

 ipossible ; 'University Museum, was the original work, and is the most enduring 

 by which <iOO.ument, of its lamented founder, the late Dr. James Kobb. Under- 

 ) their vari*'^'**^ ^'^^^ ^ keen sense of its importance and usefulness, and prosecuted 

 their interrT^ 



•"There ia a scientific reverence— a reverence •! courage— which is surely one of the highest 



ice ; the Wtti^ot reverence; tkat, namely, which so reveres a fact, that it dare not overlook or falsify it, 



^ , .MMit never so minute ; which feels that because it is a fact it cannot be minute, cannot be un- 



ley could tlnportant; that it must be a fact of God ; a message from God ; a voice of God, as Bacon has it, 



. i» ■Vi' 4^ STBrted in things ; and which therefore, just because it stands in solemn awe of such paltry facts 



3le 01 iN ail* the Bcolopax feather in a snipe's pinion, or the jagged leaves which appear capriciously in cer- 



. . , , ■ iIb honeysuckles, believes that there is likely to be some deep and wide secret imderlying them, 



VltnOUt eil/Mjph is worth years of thought to solve. That is reverence ; a reverence which is Rowing, thank 



,1 ,^%lliore and more common ; which will produce, as it grows more common utiU, fruit which 



I on tne OtMMtions yet imboru sliall bless."— Science— by Rev. Chas. Kingsley. 



