356 Dr. Whewell’s Inaugural Lecture 
a wonderful collection of the works of man.in many difter- 
ent countries ; and combining all these in his thoughts, he would 
have had in his mind a representation of the whole progress of 
human art and industry, up to the last mioment, and a picture of 
the place which each nation at that moment occupied in the line 
of that progress. But what time, what labor, what perseverance, 
what hardships, what access to great and powerful men in every 
land, what happiness of opportunity, would be now implied in the 
-completion of such a survey! A life would scarcely suffice for 
it; aman could ‘scarcely be found who would achieve it, with 
communities of the industrial world: When he visited the plains 
naked savage offered the only specimen of art in his rude club and 
frail canoe; now there is there a port whose lofty ships carry reg- 
ularly to. European markets multiplied forms of native produce 
and manufactures. . Even if his picture be complete as to surface, 
compare the one with the other—the object now seen in age 
with a similar object remembered in youth! And after all, when 
we have assumed such a traveller—such a one as never has been 
—the Ulysses of modern times—seeing the cities of many me”, 
