The Economy Of Human Time Is The

A Young Man Passes From Our Public Schools To The Universities, Ignorant Almost Of The Elements Of Every Branch Of Useful Knowledge.

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.

Scientific Knowledge Scarcely Exists Amongst The Higher Classes Of Society. The Discussion In The Houses Of Lords Or Of Commons, Which Arise On The Occurrence Of Any Subjects Connected With Science, Sufficiently Prove This Fact.

The Quantity Of Meaning Compressed Into Small Space By Algebraic Signs, Is Another Circumstance That Facilitates The Reasonings We Are Accustomed To Carry On By Their Aid.

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.