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may induce you to flag in the work, or deem that you have 
reached the utmost goal that you can gain. Let me remind 
you that this magnificent collection is held by you in trust for 
a great European and scientific end ; that your wealth will be 
only the more full of use and beauty the more it is used to 
complete the collections of your less fortunate brethren. It 
is necessary, if those studies are to be anything more than 
laborious triflings, that we should all carefully understand that 
we are working towards one point, and in one spirit ; that we 
should have a mutual reliance on each other—not believing 
that the products of our own land can exhaust the great sub- 
ject of archzological study, but that each land has its own 
portion to bring into the common stock; and that, in propor- 
tion as each carefully elaborates its own collection, will be the 
beauty and solidity of the edifice which we can collectively 
raise.” 
