A Discourse Delivered At Schenectady July 22, 1823 Before the New York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa
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Untrodden heights) and unknown lands sur- round you. Waste not, however, your energies on subjects of a frivolous nature, of useless curiosity, or impracticable attainment. Books have been multiplied to designate the writer of Junius — the Man in the Iron Mask has exercised the inquisitorial attention of Europe — and perpetual motion, the philosopher's stone, and the immortal elixir, have desiro^'cd the lives and fortunes of thousands. Genuine philosophy has sometimes its aberrations, and like ...the Spartan kii}g or Ro- man emperor, mingles in the amusements of children. The * BacoUt t Shak?peavc, 24 sceptre of science is too often surrounded by toys and bau- bles, and even Linnaeus condescended to amuse his fancy with the creation of vegetable dials and oriental pearls. Innova- tion without improvement, and experiments without discove- ries, are the rocks on which ingenuity is too often shipwrecked. " Omne ignotum pro magnifico,"* said the profound histo- rian of Rome. Wonder is the child of ignorance, and vanity the offspring of imbecility.
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