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face of cities and lands, by the practical use of some 

 stray talisman which the poor student has invented 

 in his laboratory ; — this is the spirit which is abroad 

 among our scientific men, to a greater degree than 

 it ever has been among any body of men for many 

 a century past ; and might well be copied by those 

 who profess deeper purposes and a more exalted 

 calling, than the discovery of a new zooj)hyte, or 

 the classification of a moorland crag. 



And it is these qualities, however imperfectly they 

 may be realized in any individual instance, wdiich 

 make our scientific men, as a class, the wdiolesomest 

 and pleasantest of companions abroad, and at home 

 the most blameless, simple, and cheerful, in all 

 domestic relations ; men for the most part of man- 

 ful heads, and yet of childlike hearts, who have 

 turned to quiet study, in these late piping times of 

 peace, an intellectual health and courage which 

 might have made them, in more fierce and troublous 

 times, capable of doing good service with very 

 different instruments than the scalpel and the 

 microscope. 



