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wealth, have analogous institutions, attention will be drawn to 
the following points. S 
irst. What real benefits will be derived from our estab- 
lishment, if it be duly encouraged as a higher School of Mines? 
Second. What may result, if it be rendered subordinate to 
interest of man. Acting on this principle, each government of 
the Great American Republic has its state geologist, Sepia . 
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ool for sound instruction, not only in geology, mining, and 
mineralogy, but also-in the essentially connected sciences of nat- 
