Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Smithsonian Institution, It's Origin, History, Objects and Achievements
Every man is a valuable member of society, who by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
Another sentence of his is still more pregnant with meaning. It is this: It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inherit the earth with him, and consequently, no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
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