An essay on craniology, being the substance of a paper submitted to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, December 2, 1825 / By Richard Winter Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Richard Winter, 1794-1848.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on craniology, being the substance of a paper submitted to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, December 2, 1825 / By Richard Winter Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    years ago^ but where I have found a continually enlarging circle of liberal-minded friends, though occupying almost each distinct degree of political and religious variation. I am sure you will unite with me in wishing that this populous and wealthy town, in which we are now well-nigh naturalized, may long flourish: that its scientific and beneficent institutions may prosper : and that the Owl of its Shield may prove Minerva’s own bird,—the presiding genius of commerce, freedom, urbanity, philosophy, and art! It will be your’s, my friend, to seize the honors of your liberal profession. A very unusual share of them you have already secured. It is mine to tread a humbler path. I have had my dreams of ambition, but they are fled. Nor can that moment be very distant when we shall feel, what I am sure we are daily seeking to learn, that the life of usefulness is the only life of honor; that faithfulness over our few or many endowments can alone secure that APPROBATION which is of infinitely greater value than the fame of ages and the treasure of worlds ! I have the honor to subscribe myself. Your sincere and grateful friend, RICHARD WINTER HAMILTON. Albion-St reel, Leeds.