derived from the acquisition of science few of them are visible to the world.  They are felt almost exclusively in solitude.  They are known only to him who prefers the silence of the soul to the noise of tumultuous assemblies.  But though the sciences are not understood by all, yet like the sun they shed their influence on every surrounding object, and cheer the lowest walk of life.  Indeed the ignorant often appear to enjoy the pleasures of society equally with the learned; and hence some have inferred that science is not the foundation of society.  But as well might it be denied that a particular person was the author of an invention because all mankind partook of its benefits.  As well might it be said that the sun is not the source of light, because every object within its sphere is illuminated.

            Neither can it be maintained that religion and the arts, abstracted from the sciences, could have raised man to a civilized state.  For what is religion where there is no learning?  and how few are the arts which man could discover without the assistance of theory? Go to those parts of the world where Mahometanism yet prevails.  Go to the uncultivated wilds of Asia, Africa and America, and there you may see religion without science.  But from such religion the civilized man will turn with horror.  It is such religion as exhibits a melancholy picture of the wretched condition of man