CHAP. VI.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND.
Section 1.
Of the Necessity that Members of the Royal Society should express their Opinions.
One of the causes which has contributed to the success of the party, is to be found in the great reluctance with which many of those whose names added lustre to the Society expressed their opinions, and the little firmness with which they maintained their objections. How many times have those whose activity was additionally stimulated by their interest, proposed measures which a few words might have checked; whilst the names of those whose culpable silence thus permitted the project to be matured, were immediately afterwards cited by their grateful coadjutors, as having sanctioned that which in their hearts they knew to be a job.
