An anniversary discourse, on the state and prospects of the Western museum society : delivered by appointment, in the chapel of the Cincinnati college, June 10th, 1820, on the opening of the museum / By Daniel Drake, M.D., secretary of the society.

  • Daniel Drake
Date:
1820
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Credit: An anniversary discourse, on the state and prospects of the Western museum society : delivered by appointment, in the chapel of the Cincinnati college, June 10th, 1820, on the opening of the museum / By Daniel Drake, M.D., secretary of the society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    If our beloved country were now to be invaded by a foreign enemy, not oue of these agonies would be felt. And whence, let me ask, would be the exemp- tion? I will reply, that since the perilous days of the revolution, Apollo and Vulcan have united in temper- ing the shield of Mars, and replenishing his quiver with arrows. The Genius of Science has shed his cre- ative influence over our artisans and philosophers : by his beams they have explored the recesses of our pri- mitive forests; pursued the meanders of our vast rivers; surveyed our spacious bays and harbors, and descended into our prolific earth. The fruits of this enterprise have been rich and abundant. Academies and Societies for military instruction have been form- ed; laboratories and manufactories have been erected; our magazines have been filled, and our weak places made strong. Thus, if not equal to Europe ill the ap- plication of science to works of national defence, we have obviously passed the weakness of childhood; and might repel, almost without bloodshed, an invasion, to which our fathers could only oppose theirdauntless and patriotic bosoms. To specify all the connexions between the cultiva- tion of science, and the increase and perpetuity of our happiness, would require more time and higher powers than have been appropriated to this occasion: for to what shall we ascribe the more admirable principles of our federal constitution, when compared with all others, but the profounder acquaintance of our states- men with the science of government? To what shall we attribute the greater respectability and dignity of character which belong to the middle and lower ranks F
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