The Uses of Astronomy: An Oration Delivered At Albany, On the 28th of July [i.E. August] 1856
The Uses of Astronomy: An Oration Delivered At Albany, On the 28th of July [i.E. August] 1856
Everett Edward
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It is no aft'ected modesty which leads me to express the regret that this interesting occasion could not have taken place under somewhat different auspices. 1 feel that tlie duty of addrc>ssing this great and enlightened as- sembly, comprising so much of the iiUelligence of the community and of the science of the country, ought to have been elsewhere assigned ; that it should have devolved upon son^o one of the eminent persons, many of whom I sec before me, to whom you have been listening the p...ast week, who, as observers * Frof. I.ooinb, U\ Havpcr'ji Magazine for June, p. 49. C^OOCjIp 20 o n A T I o N . and geometers, could have treated the subject with a masier^s power; aslrou- onKn%% whose ieloscopeB have penetrated the depths of the heavcuH, or mathcmaticiaus, whose analysis uuthreadi^ the maze of their wondrous mcchanisnu Jf, instead of commanding, as you easily could liavc done, quali- fications of this kind, your choice has rather MUn on one niaking no pre- tensions to the honorable name ofan\an of science, but whoso delight it has always been to turn aside from the dusty paths of active life, for an in- terval of recreation in the green fields of sacred nature in all her kingdon^s, ■it is, 1 presume, because you have desired on an occasion of this kind, ne- cessarily of a popular character, that those views of the sid.»jcct should be presented wliieh address themselves to t)»e general intelligcuce of the com- munity, and not to its select scientific circles.
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