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the details of the operations which are his daily task, will assuredly be rewarded. The triumphs of Watt and Arkwright will teach them that there is no elevation to which the humblest man of genius may not aspire, if to activity and intelligence he joins prudence and good judgment. Let it not be urged that many fail ;—a system of promotion is not bad because honours cannot fall to the lot of every meritorious soldier in our industrial army.

Great as has been the advance made in science and art within the present century, yet greater advancement of the moral and material interests of mankind may be looked for when the energies of a fresh and more numerous class of eminently practical thinkers shall have been fully developed and enlisted in the great cause of human progress.

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