ADDRESS. 



The progress made by our countrymen in 

 those departments of knowledge which are 

 more immediately connected with the wants 

 of society, has been the theme of frequent 

 discussion. That such progress has ac- 

 tually been made, is too obvious to be 

 denied ; and those who have been unwill- 

 ingly constrained to admit its truth, have 

 assigned other causes than are to be found 

 in the active, enterprising spirit of our citi- 

 zens, happily co-operating with the genius 

 of our free political institutions. It has ac- 

 cordingly been urged that the strong stimu- 

 lus of necessity, and a thirst for personal 

 wealth and aggrandizement, have led to 

 these results. Let us then inquire whether 

 those sciences which are considered rather 



