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Astronomy Is One Of The Sublimest Fields Of Human Investigation. The Mind That Grasps Its Facts And Principles Receives Something Of The Enlargement And Grandeur Belonging To The Science Itself. It Is A Quickener Of Devotion.

Let But The Public Mind Become Once Thoroughly Corrupt, And All Attempts To Secure Property, Liberty Or Life, By Mere Force Of Laws Written On Parchment, Will Be As Vain As To Put Up Printed Notices In An Orchard To Keep Off The Canker-worms.

On The Face Of It, It Must Be A Bad Cause Which Will Not Bear Discussion. Truth Seeks Light Instead Of Shunning It.

Great Knowledge Is Requisite To Instruct Those Who Have Been Well Instructed, But Still Greater Knowledge Is Requisite To Instruct Those Who Have Been Neglected.

Some Languages Are Musical In Themselves, So That It Is Pleasant To Hear Any One Read Or Converse In Them, Even Though We Do Not Understand A Word That We Hear.... Others Are Full Of Growling, Snarling, Hissing Sounds, As Though Wild Beasts And Serpents Had First Taught The People To Speak.