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There May Be Beings, Thinking Beings, Near Or Surrounding Us, Which We Do Not Perceive, Which We Cannot Imagine. We Know Very Little; But, In My Opinion, We Know Enough To Hope For The Immortality, The Individual Immortality, Of The Better Part Of Man.

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.

Mr. Dalton's Permanent Reputation Will Rest Upon His Having Discovered A Simple Principle, Universally Applicable To The Facts Of Chemistry - In Fixing The Proportions In Which Bodies Combine, And Thus Laying The Foundation For Future Labors... His Merits In This Respect Resemble Those Of Kepler In Astronomy.

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.

Fortunately Science, Like That Nature To Which It Belongs, Is Neither Limited By Time Nor By Space. It Belongs To The World, And Is Of No Country And No Age. The More We Know, The More We Feel Our Ignorance; The More We Feel How Much Remains Unknown.