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In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

Cuvier Had Even In His Address & Manner The Character Of A Superior Man, Much General Power & Eloquence In Conversation & Great Variety Of Information On Scientific As Well As Popular Subjects. I Should Say Of Him That He Is The Most Distinguished Man Of Talents I Have Ever Known On The Continent: But I Doubt If He Be Entitled To The Appellation Of A Man Of Genius.

Nature Is Beautiful, And You Are In Her Bosom. That Voice Of Comfort Which Speaks In The Breezes Of Morning, May Visit Your Mind, That The Delightful Influences Which The Green Leaves, The Blue Sky, The Moonbeams And Clouds Of The Evening Diffuse Over The Universe, May In Their Powers Of Soul-healing, Visit Your Day Visions, Is My Desire And Hope.

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.

Profound Minds Are The Most Likely To Think Lightly Of The Resources Of Human Reason, And It Is The Superficial Thinker Who Is Generally Strongest In Every Kind Of Unbelief.