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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.

Telegraphs Are Machines For Conveying Information Over Extensive Lines With Great Rapidity.

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.

Miracles May Be, For Anything We Know To The Contrary, Phenomena Of A Higher Order Of God's Laws, Superior To, And, Under Certain Conditions, Controlling The Inferior Order Known To Us As The Ordinary Laws Of Nature.

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.