Anniversary Address. XXXIX. 
many who otherwise would have but little inclination or opportunity 
for independent study, and the general taste will be elevated. At 
the same time let each man who has the ability add something 
original, in his own department of information, whether pertaining 
to science or literature, to the common stock of knowledge. 
It is thus that we, who have derived so rich an inheritance from 
the toils, the attempts, and even the failures of our ancestors, may, in 
our turn, labour to lay up a store for our descendants which shall 
make them nobler, wiser, and more enlightened than ourselves; thus, 
that each generation may rise superior to those which have gone 
before; thus, that the dreams of the Past may become the realities 
of the Present and the starting-point for the Future. In the words 
of the poet,— 
Thy far-off children shall possess 
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an ; 
Thro’ thy blind craving novel powers they gain, 
An in its pain. 
Thy heights unclimbed s e their wonted way, 
Thy hope their memory and thy dream their day. 
