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The Church Has Been Reproached With Endeavouring To Appropriate To Itself All Those Professorships In Our Universities Which Are Connected With Science: It Is However Certain That The Larger Portion Of These Ill-remunerated Offices Have Been Filled By Clergymen.

Science In England Is Not A Profession: Its Cultivators Are Scarcely Recognised Even As A Class. Our Language Itself Contains No Single Term By Which Their Occupation Can Be Expressed. We Borrow A Foreign Word [savant] From Another Country Whose High Ambition It Is To Advance Science, And Whose Deeper Policy, In Accord With More Generous Feelings, Gives To The Intellectual Labourer Reward And Honour, In Return For Services Which Crown The Nation With Imperishable Renown, And Ultimately Enrich The Human Race.

Remember That Accumulated Knowledge, Like Accumulated Capital, Increases At Compound Interest: But It Differs From The Accumulation Of Capital In This; That The Increase Of Knowledge Produces A More Rapid Rate Of Progress, Whilst The Accumulation Of Capital Leads To A Lower Rate Of Interest. Capital Thus Checks It Own Accumulation: Knowledge Thus Accelerates Its Own Advance. Each Generation, Therefore, To Deserve Comparison With Its Predecessor, Is Bound To Add Much More Largely To The Common Stock Than That Which It Immediately Succeeds.

There Is Nothing In The Nature Of A Miracle That Should Render It Incredible:;: Its Credibility Depends Upon The Nature Of The Evidence By Which It Is Supported. An Event Of Extreme Probability Will Not Necessarily Command Our Belief Unless Upon A Sufficiency Of Proof; And So An Event Which We May Regard As Highly Improbable May Command Our Belief If It Is Sustained By Sufficient Evidence. So That The Credibility Or Incredibility Of An Event Does Not Rest Upon The Nature Of The Event Itself, But Depends Upon The Nature And Sufficiency Of The Proof Which Sustains It.

Another Mode Of Accumulating Power Arises From Lifting A Weight And Then Allowing It To Fall.