The Truly Great Man

great man is he who bas added goinething to the Bweetness and worth of huraan life. Ten thousand minera would by this time have been blackened corpses, had not Sir Huinphrey Davy iuvented the patent safety lamp. Ten thousand lips are speaking of the great use of the mariner's compass, which was simply an adaptation of natural laws, or properties of matter, to a Ijenevolent human use ; and this is ono of the happy inepirations of genius.