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student of all kinds. It is a remarkable fact that exluding idle tales about pre-socratic philosophers, all history does not tell of a single man who had considerably increased human knowledge (unless theology be knowledge) having been proved a criminal. Of the four or five instances usually adduced, Seneca neither contributed to knowledge nor has been conviced of positive crime; Calvin was nothing but a theologian; the attacks upon Erasmaus are beneath contempt; Back was no man of science, ut only a grandiose writer, whose very stle betrays him; Dr. Dodd was an ordinary commentator on the Bilble; and nothing was proved against Libri. The same may be said of whispers that is or that naturalist owned specimen, in the interest of science. The lofty character of the true man of science physical or psychical, finds not one exception among a hundred. But is is needless to go to history for cases in which relatively small obliquities have prevented eminent