What Made the Institute Possible. 



rial, adding ro t lie ability an<l interest of its papers, and causing its in- 

 fluence year by year to expand. And with possible endowment lifting 

 it above the charity of other institutions, and in its own building- and 

 with its scientific collection beside it, it may then be able to realize 

 more clearly than now. not only its value and prosperity, but also its 

 comparative freedom from all successful rivalry: inasmuch as its ex- 

 istence here has been begun and fostered by conservative elements, 

 which are the creation not of a day but of three active centuries, and 

 annot elsewhere easily be duplicated. 



