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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, Before the Society of the Alumni, on the Occasion of Their Annual Celebration, November 13th, 1851
Among statesmen and patriots he, to whom, in our own history, we assign with common assent, the praise of untiring and useful attention to public duty; who for half a century constantly devoted to it his intellect and his time; whose character and conduct were in all things singularly practical and industrious; is the sagacious philosopher who, amid various speculation and experiment in the regions of science, disclosed to us the phaenomena of that subtle ?uid which has since become the most wonderful Of physical agents.
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