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      Thus , if at one time the professor of natural philosophy had made a particular study , of electricity and galvanism , at another time the professor , of ck ^ - tnistry , it would in the one case he highly proper to include electricity . and galvanism in the course of natural philosophy , in the other to . include them m the course of chemistry . If stjoh a man , for example , as Mr- Leslie , the

      Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh , held , the same chair in the University of London , it might be better to include in that course the doctrine of heat , of which Mr . Leslie has made so profound a study , than in the department of chemistry , to which that difficult subject seems more properly to belong .

      The project of the University of London , fortunate in so many respects , was not fortunate , as far as its funds were concerned , in the circumstances of the time when it was first presented to the notice of the public . It was a time of great commercial distress , when the anxieties and difficulties of the classes from which its support was chiefly to be derived , not only contracted their means of yielding it encouragement , but to a much greater degree contracted their own estimate of their means , and so fixed their attention upon the train of events in which their fortunes were involved , that their minds

      could not easily be diverted to any other object , and all sources of a more ge * - neral and distant good were for the time neglected . From this cause chiefly , as it appears to us , and not from any want of a due appreciation of the benefits offered to them , which would be so disgraceful to the numerous and important body who are to profit most by this grand undertaking , the subscription to the London University has only reached the minimum of the capital which the council deem necessary to attempt the execution of the plan on

      the most contracted scale . We cannot , however , entertain any apprehension , when the fears attendant on a period of distress , and the reluctance to part with any portion of the funds which contract an imaginary value in times of distress , have passed away , that the value which ought to be set upon a good education will be seen to be fully understood by the present generation ; and that funds will not be wanting to accomplish every thing which utility , apart from frippery of every kind , demands in a scheme of liberal education for , the metropolis of England . L .

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      " For thou comest far short , that thou shouldest be able to love my creature more than I . " 2 Esdras viii . 47 . In the deep visions of the midnight hour My soul was wrapp'd;—methought my spirit stray'd O ' er the wide earth , —its darkest scenes survey'd , And all the littleness of human pow ' r Felt with a force it never felt before : —

      Sad visions came of mortal misery , And thought of tears I would , but could not dry ; Faith droop'd , and Hope her cheerful song gave o ' er . — " And who art thou , " a gentle voice replied , " Who think'st to love my creatures more than I ? Shall not the hand that made them , well divide To each the portion of his destiny ?" Yes , thou benignant Being!—To tne dust Hurl our vain hopes—but Thou shalt have out trust .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/11/