As Soon As An Analytical Engine Exists,

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.

The Successful Construction Of All Machinery Depends On The Perfection Of The Tools Employed; And Whoever Is A Master In The Arts Of Tool-making Possesses The Key To The Construction Of All Machines... The Contrivance And Construction Of Tools Must Therefore Ever Stand At The Head Of The Industrial Arts.

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.

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.

Surely, If Knowledge Is Valuable, It Can Never Be Good Policy In A Country Far Wealthier Than Tuscany, To Allow A Genius Like Mr. Dalton's, To Be Employed In The Drudgery Of Elementary Instruction.