------ 5. Of the Transactions of the Royal Society.
------ 6. Order of Merit.
------ 7. Of the Union of Scientific Societies.
CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX NO. 1.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE DECLINE OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND, AND ON SOME OF
ITS CAUSES.



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

It cannot have escaped the attention of those, whose acquirements
enable them to judge, and who have had opportunities of examining
the state of science in other countries, that in England,
particularly with respect to the more difficult and abstract
sciences, we are much below other nations, not merely of equal
rank, but below several even of inferior power. That a country,
eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing
ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries
which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose
more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact
which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire
into the causes that influence the progress of nations.