and when assaulted, instead of yielding like [illegible] tender plant to the first breeze, he will remain,

            "Rather like the mountain oak,

            "Tempest shaken rooted fast,

            "Grasping strength from every stroke,

            "While it wrestles with the blast."

            Let therefore every man of science stand around her temple to guard it from invasion at the present alarming period of the world.  For the enemies of society have reared all the batteries of sophistry, vice and deception against its walls. Already have they made a beach wide and ruinous, which must soon be closed or the fair fabrick will fall like the tower of Babel, never more to rise.  And within the walls which guard science stand the citadels of religion, morality and the arts.  When once science has fallen, these must soon surrender.  And then for what is existence desirable?  Who is there that would not then weep that ever he was born?  If however the enlightened will arise with united strength and persevering efforts, still may science be preserved; still may she delight, invigorate and enlarge the mind; still may vice be punished and virtue remanded, and yet may civilized man be snatched from the horrors of deception, barbarism, superstition and ignorance.