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among us that attract so much of talent and industry into the paths of 
public life, nor by breaking up the freedom of pursuit, that unlocks ? 
here, every door, and prostrates every barrier in the career of enterprise 
in any and all employments — from any and all conditions ; nor, by vio- 
lating salutary constitutional limitations ; nor, by forbidding those equal 
distributions of estates among children, that prevent many of those ac- 
cumulations of wealth, which can be exhausted so laudably in becoming 
Macsenases of the age. But they are rather for all to persevere with all 
the additional means, lights, and energies, derived from experience and 
success ; the People at large patronising, by adopting, scientific improve- 
ments, whenever useful— the wealthy assisting those efforts which are 
more remote and doubtful in their practical returns, as well as assisting 
the progress of the sciences themselves — and governments, within their 
granted powers, collecting instruments for genius to use, and materials 
for it to reflect on and work up for public advantage; and also to reward 
genius for all its efforts in such improvements by science as become 
eminently useful in the operations of the Government itself. 
We may well continue to imitate more of the splendid examples of 
munificence towards improvements of this kind in other Republics— 
such as that of Venice to Galileo, making him, in return for the teles- 
cope, a Professor for life, and nearly doubling his salary. We may per- 
sist in employing future Haslers on our coast surveys and weights and 
measures — future Nicolets on our boundaries and longitudes — future 
Pattersons on our coins and mints — future Owens on our metals and 
mines — all these, and much more that might be enumerated did time 
permit — all, whenever their science and genius can appropriately be used 
to promote the public interests and glory. Again, nothing should be spared 
to value science as she deserves, by honoring her votaries in those ways 
compatible with our institutions — after examples elsewhere so auspicious 
in the cases of the Romfords, and Jenners, and Davys, and Arkwrights. 
We must be diligent, also, to discover and commend her excellencies in 
a thousand objects of practical life the most ordinary, no less than in re- 
searches into abstract questions, and metaphysics, and among the caverns 
of the ocean or the stars of heaven. We must omit no proper means to find 
out her usefulness in the very cabin, and workshop, and plough-field — • 
on the earth, in it, and around it ; and not merely far above, as many 
when unreflecting are apt to imagine is her peculiar sphere. On the 
contrary, we constantly ought to bring her home to our business and 
bosoms in every-day life, and make her the handmaid and helpmeet of 
