New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

sympathy with the happiness ana soIrow tne Igvu IN
and ill., Of the whole creation as IL discovers ltso ~
his poetry, gave one the leehns vi lis ""'1'- O
There was snch an Undesirable superiority.
both intellectual and moral. stamped upon nith "a
his very silence that everything OIL ms hau
tbou chit silly Immediately took the beautiful color
ing of a wondrous benevolence that couid descend
through love to the least and most %,
things among the works OF God or connected Win
tho veal or woe OF man. | think it would ne quite
impossibe for any one who had once been IN W orIs-
wortls company ever again to think anything ITO
.When we next entered the 6rswng;roon. we
fonnd Words worth already there. an3 Ieadlng somo
thing to William who sat,Dy MN ,sten.ns LII
When we entered. the poet hastily lurHeu, WIZ 5
gesture of politeness, moving his race anu neou
his whole body, in the direction 70 wn'cn We
passed but after commonp,ace onr seats az the
window in q way and In listening attit',uo tn Ia
intimated we did not wish TO interrupt 'ne'ii' lie
continued. l,r,r IN
It was his own Excursion" he was reading IN
conseouepce of a discussion having arisen oetWecn
them in which William had slluded 10 p"s Sd t
that noem winch as we'll IA could coliect. uu hoV
ouite please him by its slight reverence LOT Scienco
Wordsworth first flashed the passage. IN vorg
low, impressive Tone moving Dis ingsi he Iesd 10 he
line as lie went along and seemilg DO "o i0"" w ~
quito rapt out OF tins world: - m 7 ,oo,,ed NJ
him and ut tnar moment, cannot exaciy u uu
wv ha ssemed tn me sublime; and Involuntary
Thought of the epithet applied to greater poet PR
Laps, but do not think a finer Of purer Spoo'"'o"
. Jda sben defended himself with beautiful mix
tnre of warmth and temperateness, from the accnsa
ton of any want OF that raised the
mind 70 The contemplation of God in works, anu
which was pursued to that end as its primary anu
great object but as for all other scienco 20
be applied merely 20 the material uses OF OF
life thought it DEGRADED sGion instead which Oh
wared war with and wished to extlngulsh
Imagination IN the mind OF man; and to leave ~
nothing of any kind but the naked & ..
and what is disseminated in the present uav unoi
the title OF "usefu knUwledge, Uelng 1l scol-
nected as he thought it, with TOD ana eveIA.n,ns
hnt itself was of a dangerous and debaslng'endehcy
For his part, rather tnan have his nlnu sneroSseu
with this kind OF science to the utter exclusion "
refers to our bodily comforts, power and greatness
he would much prefer being snpers'i''o"S o'u
woman. II. u 81. r. 40 =,
,repf1 he quite agreed with it, but he would adu
a good deal more" am sure you would saIu
Wcrdsworth with a good hu mured smile: and n
Won will allow me to explain nv sentiments hrSt.
shall be glad TO hear vOuTs afterward. lie theh
entered very much at large on the scope OF DIS ue
sign, repeating that science Wneh oei d e. Cod
he yenerated The only class of sclentlnc petrohs
against whom lie had directed his battery wele 70
those whom he would compare 10 the pioneers OF
an army who go before the hero. certalnlp pre-
paring the way for him. and cutting 40" tne oD-
sruotions that oppose his March out VINO .,e'r ~
any kind but the hope OF reapng part OF tue
plunder and sharing in tho prcht ri success.
What" be said would have been the use OF my
praIsing such men as Newton They DO not neea
my insignificant praise. ana therefore ulu Ho'
allude to such sons of Science
Hamilton's conception of Science and his dntier as
teacher was assuredly . lofty one. When, says
MIR. Graves. "he spoke as lecturer on the great
subject with which he had been so long conVersant
il was plain to see that he absorbed by Te'er-
ential consideration OF the grandeur of Astronomy
az science not more connected with vasness III lts
material aspect than with the ideas so dear TO him
of intellectual and spiritual elevation. Of actual and
IMAGINATIVE beauty, of truth submely severe and
comvrebensive. As he poured ont III bis sonof"us
tones his thoughts thus blending Poetry aud
Science. he appeared as | have said, absorbed IN
awed and deg GIFTED contemplation Of the irnths he
had the solemn privilege OF denouncng; there was
no apparent consciousness of his own personality
he was worshpu revealing the PROJECTIONS of the
object OF his worship; and tOwaTdthe youthful audi
ence who surrounded him he took the attitude
not 40 mach of a superior authority and teacher
as of a worshipper desruus that other intelligent
spirits should take fire from the fame Of his devo-
ton of a fellow student DESTROYS TO win those who
heard HIM to be as earnest students as himself Ihe
reverence said by the Roman poet to he due TO
bows was by him habitually paid to tho young dls
cpes of Srence who resorted TO his lecture-rooni.
This volume ends with the record OF they year 1852
when Hamilton was twenty-seven years Old. ana
when his% theoretical discovery OF Conical Refrac-
ton was making him famous throughout the world
of Science The second volume promises to be more
attractive both Us story of intellectual achieve
ment ana as a storehousc OF correspondence with
eminent persons.