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 he remarks, "But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance [sic] and interruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter."—Life of Galileo, p. 18. And, in another letter to Kepler, he speaks with gratitude of Cosmo, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who "has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of 1000 florins, and with the title of Philosopher and principal Mathematician to his Highness, without the duties of any office to perform, but with most complete leisure; so that I can complete my treatise on Mechanics, &c."—P. 31.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary intructioninstruction [sic]. Where would have been the military renown of England, if, with an equally improvi-