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highest European and Christian culture ; those, and a hundred other topics, 
awaken an ever-new interest in the mind of the philosopher and statesman, 
in the feelings of the Christian and the lover of his kind. What new fields 
for science! What new opportunities for wealth and power! What new 
openings for good I How important that those who issue from this great 
of modern commerce— this more than Tyre of modem times— 
should know how to turn them to advantage ! Surely your periodical visits 
eie, wit their kindling, stimulating—1 was going to say contagious — inftu- 
ences, are no mean instrument for such a purpose. 
be ^ or nothing that the heroes of even' branch of science are 
_ nn . e , l0m many countries within these walls, and are brought intoper- 
sonai contact; with the most enterprising and public-spirited of our merchants; 
arianfari f an £ ua 6 e . m Y distinguished predecessor in this chair, slightly 
Jabomtn^ counting-house is thus brought into juxtaposition with the 
science f n ,| * . 0 ®tudy. Commerce will more than ever be auxiliary to 
imn.il! , m ° re tlmU cver t,,c ‘ ^Pmate of commerce; and a still 
of some minfn W *i be .* , ’ ,V0D to those beneficial influences, which, in spite 
state of wnr n 11 ’ J°u” 1 . I J eC€98 * , 'y interruption, occasioned by our present 
able globe. * ^°° ^* rov,dence 18 so visibly extending over the whole habit- 
thi'y rt mry year J'^ *» d *«» necewary to pr« S tl« 
steam-boats_ofnilr^ii a , n a £ e of K as »nd steam—of steam-engines and 
of science is no lontre/imeff tC J e 8 ra Py®> a,,<1 photographs—the importance 
are far fromthe foumfS^ 1 ? ° nC ?*. H 18 <l truism-^ commonplace. We 
example of the monarch th*?/ 8 ° fhc Bo y al Society* when, in spite of the 
and even the immort-il it, *i , . P r0( j ee ^ i ,n g a were the ridicule of the Court; 
a Harvey, a Hooke or n * ^ 0U f. ,t: t . ,e ^ a * JOU rs of a Wallis, a Sydenham, 
. it is still however wnrt^ ^ H 'W 9 ** ft,r wit * 
in science exist or ale bl ^ u ' ria fi whether sufficient facilities for education 
or other important bodies nwwfiU J/.lr'“ r C 4 0untr >' i a »d whether Government 
prosecution. P - sufficient encouragement and reward for its 
sriod/tbe a^tenees'P° do,lbfc that, until a very late 
ri..-7, nawIe dge of science whl.i opportunity of acquiring any, the 
teated, i u -ie 8 p ected tea b * t . *Jj* r Poetical or abstract, save from the un- 
Univ° - itinurant Jecture? Bchool s> or from the casual 
- % own univ^S! OvT U,g apj)aratus * what did the 
the study of Mar 1 ! 081 ob,i S a,i ‘»'«. did liUle^W nhW I aeknow,ed ^ iD 0t £![ 
rccrivp.i l V ^ ut ,e * IIa tics, as an f v P ,„; c „ , physical science. True, that 
‘ l,urt '’ tbou S | ‘ ZTeZt of1r e , of !! ,C “*"*"f* 
the honours n f ti Iu,hu,t - True, that until „ th< " place has ,,ever )' et bl ‘ e . D 
to the Bam« e • 1,0 d,#ter University wem * *° ,n P a «ibvdy a recent period. 
names no ? n ? t?llc t e; a "d that the School of xi C,Usive5 > ’ or »^ly so, confined 
were still too Iv^- 0 * 8tlcJj a founder j?^ wton bas **!dom been without 
and not a.exclusively regarded a* *’« But evon there the Mathematics 
instrument for the discover^*** i ra ’ ,, 'ng of the understanding. 
y of further truth; and the fair tree 
