It Must Always Be Borne In Mind

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument. The Native Intellectual Powers Of Men In Different Times Are Not So Much The Causes Of The Different Success Of Their Labours, As The Peculiar Nature Of The Means And Artificial Resources In Their Possession.

The Wealth And Prosperity Of The Country Are Only The Comeliness Of The Body, The Fullness Of The Flesh And Fat; But The Spirit Is Independent Of Them; It Requires Only Muscle, Bone And Nerve For The True Exercise Of Its Functions. We Cannot Lose Our Liberty, Because We Cannot Cease To Think.

The Beginning Of Civilisation Is The Discovery Of Some Useful Arts, By Which Men Acquire Property, Comforts, Or Luxuries. The Necessity Or Desire Of Preserving Them Leads To Laws And Social Institutions. The Discovery Of Peculiar Arts Gives Superiority To Particular Nations ... To Subjugate Other Nations, Who Learn Their Arts, And Ultimately Adopt Their Manners;- So That In Reality The Origin As Well As The Progress And Improvement Of Civil Society Is Founded In Mechanical And Chemical Inventions.

The Three States Of The Caterpillar, Larva, And Butterfly Have, Since The Time Of The Greek Poets, Been Applied To Typify The Human Being,--its Terrestrial Form, Apparent Death, And Ultimate Celestial Destination.

And By The Influence Of Heat, Light, And Electrical Powers, There Is A Constant Series Of Changes; Matter Assumes New Forms, The Destruction Of One Order Of Beings Tends To The Conservation Of Another; Solution And Consolidation, Decay And Renovation, Are Connected; And Whilst The Parts Of The System Continue In A State Of Fluctuation And Change, The Order And Harmony Of The Whole Remain Unalterable.