VII. ABBÉ HAÜY, FATHER OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY.

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They continue this day as they were created, perfect in number and measure and weight, and from the ineffaceable characters impressed on them we may learn that those aspirations after accuracy in measurement, truth in statement, and justice in action, which we reckon among our noblest attributes as men, are ours because they are essential constituents of the image of Him who in the beginning created not only heaven and earth, but the materials of which heaven and earth consist.--CLERK MAXWELL On the Molecule, "Nature," Vol. VIII. 1873.

RÉNÉ JUST HAÜY

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