Anniversary Address. 17 



" Let knowledge gi-ow from more to more, 

 Yet more of reverence in us dwell." 



May wc, like them, Avhilst fearlessly scrutinising Nature's 

 laws, cease not for a moment to respect the teachings of in- 

 spiration, nor forget to look from Nature up to Nature's 

 God. 



Long as I have already trespassed on your time, I cannot 

 adequately give utterance to the feelings which I entertain on 

 tLis head, Avithout, in conclusion, adopting, in its integrity, 

 the impressive language of one of the greatest orators and 

 divines the New World has yet produced. Dr. Channing : — 



" I look with admiration on the intellectual force which 

 combines and masters scattered facts, and by analysis and 

 comparison ascends to the general laws of the material 

 universe. But the philosopher Avho does not see in the 

 force within him something nobler than the outward natiu-e 

 which he analyses — who, in tracing mechanical and chemical 

 agencies, is unconscious of a higher action in his own soul — 

 who is not led by all finite powers to the Omnipotent, and 

 who does not catch, in the order and beauty of the universe, 

 some glimpses of spiritual perfection — stops at the very 

 threshold of the temple of truth.'' 



