text:  No doubt we must have such persons--no doubt it is indispensable that places of instruction should exist in which they can learn their various and highly important avocations; but is that the school in which the enlarged mind is to be formed the varied information acquired the appreciation of the grand and the beautiful imbibed which are essential to an accomplished and really useful writer of travels? Sulphuric acid and Optics Anatomy and Mechanics will do many things; but they will never make an observer of Nature a friend of Man a fit commentator on the world of God