28 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
taking pictures, it on the one hand encourages a knowledge of Optical 
and Chemical science, while on the other it cultivates an artistic 
taste and leads the earnest worker to see new beauties in nature that 
will much enhance his enjoyment of life. 
Let us then continue in our various sections of this great work 
that we, as a Scientific and Literary Association have taken up, and 
though we may not have suffered the peculiar temporal reverses of 
Shakespeare’s exiled duke, still we have had our disappointments as 
regards the non-fulfilment of our ambitions, and as much perhaps 
those of an educational character, so should be the more ready with 
him to say: 
‘‘Sweet are the uses of adversity 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.” 
