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He Will Also Find That The High And Independent Spirit, Which Usually Dwells In The Breast Of Those Who Are Deeply Versed In Scientific Pursuits, Is Ill Adapted For Administrative Appointments; And That Even If Successful, He Must Hear Many Things He Disapproves, And Raise No Voice Against Them.

Remember That Accumulated Knowledge, Like Accumulated Capital, Increases At Compound Interest: But It Differs From The Accumulation Of Capital In This; That The Increase Of Knowledge Produces A More Rapid Rate Of Progress, Whilst The Accumulation Of Capital Leads To A Lower Rate Of Interest. Capital Thus Checks It Own Accumulation: Knowledge Thus Accelerates Its Own Advance. Each Generation, Therefore, To Deserve Comparison With Its Predecessor, Is Bound To Add Much More Largely To The Common Stock Than That Which It Immediately Succeeds.

No Person Will Deny That The Highest Degree Of Attainable Accuracy Is An Object To Be Desired, And It Is Generally Found That The Last Advances Towards Precision Require A Greater Devotion Of Time, Labour, And Expense, Than Those Which Precede Them.

Trimming Consists Of Clipping Off Little Bits Here And There From Those Observations Which Differ Most In Excess From The Mean, And In Sticking Them Onto Those Which Are Too Small; A Species Of 'equitable Adjustment,' As A Radical Would Term It, Which Cannot Be Admitted In Science.

The Church Has Been Reproached With Endeavouring To Appropriate To Itself All Those Professorships In Our Universities Which Are Connected With Science: It Is However Certain That The Larger Portion Of These Ill-remunerated Offices Have Been Filled By Clergymen.