Excerpt from Time Is a Seedfield, Eternity the Harvest: An Address Delivered Before the Philomathean Society of Pennsylvania College, February 15, 1842

Gentlemen Of The
Philomathæan Society, -

Revolving in my mind how I should best discharge the duty your friendly nomination imposed upon me, several subjects occurred to me which appeared calculated to afford you entertainment not unsuitable to the object of our assembling, but being impressed with the belief that something better than mere passing amusement for an idle hour should be attempted on such occasions, I at length determined, at the risk of being thought tedious, to endeavor to embody a few reflections of a graver character which have been for some time floating in my mind, and though, probably, they will not be new to you, if I do not over-estimate their importance, it may not be unprofitable to you to have them brought once more under your notice. Not to detain you longer with these prefatory remarks, I would beg you to consider for a moment. What should be the object of study? - and I would put the same question to myself - to - all for all mankind are students.

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