Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section A (1877); Nature, Vol. 16, p. 313.

[1532].

Give me to learn each secret cause;

Let Number’s, Figure’s, Motion’s laws

Reveal’d before me stand;

These to great Nature’s scenes apply,

And round the globe, and through the sky,

Disclose her working hand.

—Akenside, M.

Hymn to Science.