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become matter of history : others, perhaps greater than these, 

 belong to posterity, and need the ken of prophecy to describe. 

 We may be quite sure, however, that this Hall will be a centre of 

 deep interest to coming generations. Long after we shall have 

 passed away, will the men of New-York, as they survey these 

 monuments, feel stimulated to engage in other noble enterprises 

 by this work of their progenitors ; and from many a distant part 

 of the civilized world will men come here to solve their scientific 

 questions, and to bring far off regions into comparison with this. 

 New- York, then, by her liberal patronage of science, has not only 

 acquired an honorable name among the living in all civilized 

 lands, but has secured the voice of history to transmit her fame 

 to far off generations. 



