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 and education. To discover new principles, and to detect the undiscovered laws by which nature operates, is another and a higher task, and requires intellectual qualifications of a very different order: the labour of the one is like that of the computer of an almanac; the inquiries of the other resemble more the researches of the accomplished analyst, who has invented the formulæ by which those computations are performed.

Such being the distinction between the merits of these inquiries, some difference ought to exist in the nature of any rewards that may be pro-