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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 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.

But If The Two Countries Or Governments Are At War, The Men Of Science Are Not. That Would, Indeed Be A Civil War Of The Worst Description: We Should Rather, Through The Instrumentality Of The Men Of Science Soften The Asperities Of National Hostility. Davy's Remarks To Thomas Poole On Accepting Napoleon's Prize For The Best Experiment On Galvanism.

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 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.