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Rh So much as can serve their interested views, and not to enlarge science.

The third class is resembled to the bee: these are inquisitive, and discriminating they collect the elements, which are to be converted into a new product. The labours of these are devoted to benefit the world. In this class we discover the emblems of those, who can be justly entitled men of science.

It is in the delineation of those traits that represent the boldest display, and the freest exercise, of the noblest powers of the mind, and which manifest themselves in Invention, which is Genius, that we recognize the portrait of Hunter; in contemplating which, we must be led to acknowledge, that he was one of the brightest examples of a man of science.

The philosophy of Hunter's mind was