to the eye of genius, whose glances are radiant with light, and pour the brightness of day on every object on which they rest. To all others the future is inscrutable; yet the law of the physical sciences is continual progress, and we may confidently believe in discoveries which we yet cannot distinctly foresee. Nor do I think so poorly of my countrymen as to doubt that a great part of the merit and the glory of such discoveries will be theirs; that the energy and intellectual superiority which have obtained for them the first rank in the political world will always ensure them a similar station in the world of science; that as England has in past times been eminent among the nations for its success in the higher departments of physical science, so its progeny, through successive generations, will emulate their fathers' fame, animated by the same thirst of knowledge, and the same admiration of the works of the Creator. To use the words of the great Harvey, "Pudeat in hoc naturæ campo, tam spatioso, tam admirabili, promissisque majora semper persolvente, aliorum scriptis credere, incerta inde problemata cudere, et spinosas captiosasque disputatiunculas nectere. Natura ipsa adeunda est, et semitá quam nobis monstrat insistendum: ita enim, dum oculos nostros consulimus, et a minimis exorsi ad majora promovemus pedem, ad intima tandem ipsius arcana penetrabimus."*

*De Gen. Animal. Præf.

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