The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-16

these points, there parts OF his science in which
he has made great proficiency. He cast natiyi-
". He knows at what moment Saturn is in the
house OF life and what events follow from Mars being
in conjunction with the Dngon's Tail lie tell you
from this, which OF your children will be fortunate In
marriage and which OF them will be lost al sea Now,
take this very profound man. and compare with him
OF what called your own shallow members, whose
exceeding superuous knowledge is said TO be dangerous
10 intellectual Character doubt not tha copy OF Sir John
Hersches beautiful work astronomy will be found in
your institute very few evenings spent over the Pc
east the naivihes OF your children but il WILL believe
give him far correct and profound notion OF the
solar system and OF the laws which govern the heaven
bodies Than me greatest astronomer OF me thirteenth
Our great man--for will suppose him TO be univer
sal genius great man OF the thirteenth century
great chemist ne perhaps mas co. as =, as ach s ye
regarded in that days he has perhaps got as Ia ~ 70
know that il YOU mix charcoal and salpetre together
certain proportions, there will be great explosion But
Of the possibility OF employing this knowledge to make
revolution in the art OF war; or TO accomplish vast sclen
hc results he has no conception But there are things
IN which he goes beyound the reach OF modern chemists
He is in pursuit of the philosophers stone and he has
an array OF saltpelre, and OF red oil, and white OIL
burning night and morning, and he entertains the
firm conviction, that BY means OF these stews he will
some morning turn all his pots and pans into gold.
Now, suppose that Professor Faraday induced to
give lectures in this institute something like the course
which ! heard him, give to the children in London
on Christmas day In that case, believe that | may
promise that you would carry away from these lectures
much more accurate and profound knowledge Of chems-
try than chemist, who would have been considered
worthy Of the patronage of kings could possibly have Civ
in the OF years in the thirteenth century Mr.
Macaulay then went to say that, II was IN ltera
ure, il was in sciences and, having referred to the
works which possessed, as compared with those
existing in the thirteenth century, took occasion aude
TO the excellent TRANSACTIONS which also had OF almost
every valuable work OF ancient Greece and Rome and OF
every valuable work published in modern times on the
continent OF Europe"
He concluded as follows .r
"But this brings me back to the point from which |
started The toast which requested to propose, is to
British literature. To that literature the proudest, the
purest, and the most durable of all the gores Of
country; to that literature, which is rich in all the treas
OF truth and education; to that literature, which
boasts of the prince OF all poets and the prince OF all phi
osophers; TO that literature, which has exercised
mankind mighter influence than the influence OF
commerce and arms; 10 that literature, which has
taught France the principles OF liberty and which has
furnished Germany with models of art TO that literature
which constitutes tie than that of blood between
us and the great commonwealth in the valley OF the
Mississippi that literature, before the light OF which
impious and cruel superstition is fast taking Its flight
on the banks OF the Ganges; to that literature which
WILL in future ages, instruct and delight unborn Millions
who will then have covered with their cities and gardens
the Ausalasian and Caaran deserts 'to the literature
OF Britain, and wherever British literature spreads, may
it be attended by British virtue and by British freedom"