There Are Very Few Persons Who Pursue

The Whole Language Of Nature Informs Us, That In Animated Beings There Is Something Above Our Powers Of Investigation; Something Which Employs, Combines, And Arranges The Gross Elements Of Matter - A Spark Of Celestial Fire, By Which Life Is Kindled And Preserved, And Which, If Even The Instruments It Employs Are Indestructible In Their Essence, Must Itself, Of Necessity, Be Immortal.

When Two Elements Combine And Form More Than One Compound, The Masses Of One Element That React With A Fixed Mass Of The Other Are In The Ratio Of Small Whole Numbers.

James Watt Was Equally Distinguished As A Natural Philosopher And Chemist; His Inventions Demonstrate His Profound Knowledge Of Those Sciences, And That Peculiar Characteristic Of Genius - The Union Of Them For Practical Application.

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument.

And By The Influence Of Heat, Light, And Electrical Powers, There Is A Constant Series Of Changes; Matter Assumes New Forms, The Destruction Of One Order Of Beings Tends To The Conservation Of Another; Solution And Consolidation, Decay And Renovation, Are Connected; And Whilst The Parts Of The System Continue In A State Of Fluctuation And Change, The Order And Harmony Of The Whole Remain Unalterable.