Scientific Knowledge Scarcely Exists Amongst The Higher

Precedents Are Treated By Powerful Minds As Fetters With Which To Bind Down The Weak, As Reasons With Which To Mistify The Moderately Informed, And As Reeds Which They Themselves Fearlessly Break Through Whenever New Combinations And Difficult Emergencies Demand Their Highest Efforts.

In England, The Profession Of The Law Is That Which Seems To Hold Out The Strongest Attraction To Talent, From The Circumstance, That In It Ability, Coupled With Exertion, Even Though Unaided By Patronage, Cannot Fail Of Obtaining Reward.

In Mathematical Science, More Than In All Others, It Happens That Truths Which Are At One Period The Most Abstract, And Apparently The Most Remote From All Useful Application, Become In The Next Age The Bases Of Profound Physical Inquiries, And In The Succeeding One, Perhaps, By Proper Simplification And Reduction To Tables, Furnish Their Ready And Daily Aid To The Artist And The Sailor.

I Wish To God These Calculations Had Been Executed By Steam.

Whenever The Work Is Itself Light, It Becomes Necessary, In Order To Economize Time, To Increase The Velocity.