The Errors Which Arise From The Absence

It Is Difficult To Estimate The Misery Inflicted Upon Thousands Of Persons, And The Absolute Pecuniary Penalty Imposed Upon Multitudes Of Intellectual Workers By The Loss Of Their Time, Destroyed By Organ-grinders And Other Similar Nuisances.

That The State Of Knowledge In Any Country Will Exert A Directive Influence On The General System Of Instruction Adopted In It, Is A Principle Too Obvious To Require Investigation.

It Can Happen To But Few Philosophers, And But At Distant Intervals, To Snatch A Science, Like Dalton, From The Chaos Of Indefinite Combination, And Binding It In The Chains Of Number, To Exalt It To Rank Amongst The Exact. Triumphs Like These Are Necessarily 'few And Far Between.'

A Powerful Attraction Exists, Therefore, To The Promotion Of A Study And Of Duties Of All Others Engrossing The Time Most Completely, And Which Is Less Benefited Than Most Others By Any Acquaintance With Science.

The True Value Of The Christian Religion Rests, Not Upon Speculative Views Of The Creator, Which Must Necessarily Be Different In Each Individual, According To The Extent Of The Knowledge Of The Finite Being, Who Employs His Own Feeble Powers In Contemplating The Infinite: But It Rests Upon Those Doctrines Of Kindness And Benevolence Which That Religion Claims And Enforces, Not Merely In Favour Of Man Himself But Of Every Creature Susceptible Of Pain Or Of Happiness.