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 civil wars, not only with the permission, but by command of the Parliament, certain rapacious hands stripped not only my house of all its furniture, but what is subject of far greater regret to me, my enemies abstracted from my museum the fruits of many years of toil.’

It was left for succeeding generations to mourn over the troubles of this great master, and to appreciate the worth which brought upon him the vengeance of his contemporaries.

The memory of the great discoverer has now a place in the heart of every lover of truth. He lived to surprise the world by the display of rare gifts, and it is for me, standing within these walls, decorated by the work of his honoured hands, reverently to ask your loving remembrance of one whose labours are, to us, an eternal monument of greatness, and who now, numbered among the mighty dead, bids us, by his high example, to go onward hopefully and fearlessly to the last.