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Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument. The Native Intellectual Powers Of Men In Different Times Are Not So Much The Causes Of The Different Success Of Their Labours, As The Peculiar Nature Of The Means And Artificial Resources In Their Possession.

This Sentiment Of Self-contempt Is A Frequent One In Young People Of Both Sexes. Their Valuation Of Themselves Varies As Much As The Barometer, And Is As Much Affected By Outward Causes.

The Wealth And Prosperity Of The Country Are Only The Comeliness Of The Body, The Fullness Of The Flesh And Fat; But The Spirit Is Independent Of Them; It Requires Only Muscle, Bone And Nerve For The True Exercise Of Its Functions. We Cannot Lose Our Liberty, Because We Cannot Cease To Think.

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.

I Envy No Quality Of The Mind Or Intellect In Others; Not Genius, Power, Wit, Nor Fancy; But, If I Could Choose What Would Be Most Delightful, And, I Believe, Most Useful To Me, I Should Prefer A Firm Religious Belief To Every Other Blessing.