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         It is evident, I think, that the Jestalor? contemplated an

Institution Sui genesis, different from any existing University, College, Seminary, Museum, Library, or garden of herbs; — that by "men" whom he designed to benefit, he meant the mafses of mankind, as distinguished from the more privileged clafses;- that by "the increase and diffusion of knowledge" among them, ^ he intended, not the increase of the Sum of human knowledge by new discoveries in Science, but the wider diffusion of that which is already known: —The increase of knowledge among the millions. He did not design to set men upon the Search of undiscoverd truths, to increase the Scientific stores of some contemporary Newton, Person, or la Place, but to put the common people in pofsefsion of larger measures of information calculated to subserve their interests, elevate their characters, and promote their happinefs.

        This distinction is important to be observed; for the Legatee

is bound by the intention of the Jestalor?, brackets drawn from the following "and" and closing at "it." with a line connecting (and the proposed establishment must conform to it.) An Institution for the discovery "discovery" underlined of knowledge is a very different thing from an Institution for the diffusion "diffusion" underlined of it. brackets drawn from "new" to "ones." with line connecting them (New truths are lefs important to the mafses than an extended acquaintance with old ones.) If Mr.