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scientific mind, and through it, on the material welfare of 
the country, than any other six Englishmen now living whom 
I can remember. Each of these men has devoted himself 
specially, from early life, to the pursuit of one depart¬ 
ment of knowledge; and yet, through the means of that one 
study , his mind (educated by that one phase of it) has re¬ 
ceived a large and liberal development as to other forms of 
knowledge.”— Rev . Canon Mosely. 
“ I should certainly add English history, Euclid and one 
of the natural sciences to the subjects which he mentions. 
The latter is particularly important, as calling out the faculty 
of observation, which is scarcely done either by a training 
in literature or in abstract science.”— Rev. G . E. L. Cotton . 
6( A man may not be a much better postman for being 
able to draw, or being acquainted with natural history; but 
he who in that rank possesses these acquirements has given 
evidence of qualities which it is important for the general 
cultivation of the mass that the state should take every fair 
opportunity of stamping with its approbation. John 
Stuart Mill . 
t( He who has mastered any one branch of liberal know¬ 
ledge must have toiled through details as uninteresting, 
se, as the smallest of those in an office, and must have learnt 
how to measure the worth of parts by that of the "hole 
which each contributes to form.”— R • R> W, Lingen. 
“As to the assertion that vanity and conceit increase with 
knowledge and industry, one would only have expected it to 
be made by persons either wilfully blind to the real effect , 
of a good education, or who have had no experience of it 
themselves.”— Rev. G. L . Cotton . 
