Mr. Dalton's Permanent Reputation Will Rest Upon

If I Am Allowed To Give A Metaphorical Allusion To The Future State Of The Blessed, I Should Imagine It By The Orange-grove In That Sheltered Glen On Which The Sun Is Now Beginning To Shine, And Of Which The Trees Are At The Same Time, Loaded With Sweet Golden Fruit And Balmy Silver Flowers. Such Objects May Well Portray A State In Which Hope And Fruition Become One Eternal Feeling.

Geology, Perhaps More Than Any Other Department Of Natural Philosophy, Is A Science Of Contemplation. It Requires No Experience Or Complicated Apparatus, No Minute Processes Upon The Unknown Processes Of Matter. It Demands Only An Enquiring Mind And Senses Alive To The Facts Almost Everywhere Presented In Nature. And As It May Be Acquired Without Much Difficulty, So It May Be Improved Without Much Painful Exertion.

Nature Is Beautiful, And You Are In Her Bosom. That Voice Of Comfort Which Speaks In The Breezes Of Morning, May Visit Your Mind, That The Delightful Influences Which The Green Leaves, The Blue Sky, The Moonbeams And Clouds Of The Evening Diffuse Over The Universe, May In Their Powers Of Soul-healing, Visit Your Day Visions, Is My Desire And Hope.

Natural Science Is Founded On Minute Critical Views Of The General Order Of Events Taking Place Upon Our Globe, Corrected, Enlarged, Or Exalted By Experiments, In Which The Agents Concerned Are Placed Under New Circumstances, And Their Diversified Properties Separately Examined. The Body Of Natural Science, Then, Consists Of Facts; Is Analogy,-the Relation Of Resemblance Of Facts By Which Its Different Parts Are Connected, Arranged, And Employed, Either For Popular Use, Or For New Speculative Improvements.

By Science Calmed, Over The Peaceful Soul, Bright With Eternal Wisdom's Lucid Ray, Peace, Meek Of Eye, Extends Her Soft Control, And Drives The Puny Passions Far Away.