Statue to Sir Isaac Newton. 51 
zealous because rational followers of one whose example both 
encouraged and enabled his successors to make further progress. 
How unlike the blind devotion to a master which for so many ages 
of the modern world paralysed the energies of the human mind!— 
contemplating the achievements of this gre re in 
egree whatever the result of national partiality, and confined 
to the country which glories in having given him birth. e 
not merely 
wellinformed judgment of the masters of science. Leibni 
much the better half.” “Th newra will ever remain a 
monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the 
greatest law of the universe,” are the words of Laplace. “That 
work stands preéminent above all the other productions of the 
human mind.” “The discovery of that oa a and ural law, 
by the greatness and the variety of the objects which i 
Taces, confers honor upon the intellect of man.” Lagrange, we 
are told by D’Alembert, was wont to describe Newton as the 
greatest genius that ever existed, but to add “how fortunate he 
was also, because there can only once be found a system of the 
universe to establish.” ‘ Never,” says the father of the Institute 
of France—one filling a high place among the most eminent of 
its members—‘ Never,” says M. Biot, “was the supremacy of 
intellect so justly established and so fully confessed. In mathe- 
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matical and in experimental science without an equal and with- 
Newton,” L’H6pital asked, “sleep and wake like other men? I 
figure him to 2 is 
myself as a celestial genius, entirely disengaged 
from matter.” | 
To so renowned a benefactor of the world, thus exalted to the 
loftiest place by the common consent of all men—one whose life, 
