1. To pursue the Golconda miner’s method—save the diamonds.
2. Adopt the motto of the great dailies, “condense.”
3. Popularize—if possible strip off the technicalities, and present truth in such a way that busy men and women may readily secure it.
4. Be accurate as far as we go, and help minds to go farther.
5. Encourage to self-help, to observe nature, to study, to experiment. Why be thirsty with the Amazon flowing around us?
6. To use all helps appropriate to each subject, by which ideas may be borne to the mind through that sense best calculated to convey them.
It is a profound mistake to think everything has been discovered; it is the same as to consider the horizon to be the boundary of the world.—Lemierre.