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Excerpt from The Prospectus, Charter, Ordinances and Bye-Laws of the Royal Institution of Great Britain: Together With Lists of the Proprietors and Subscribers; And an Appendix
There appear to be but three direct methods of diminishing or removing these difficulties: 1. To give premiums or prizes to the inventors. 2. To grant temporary monopolies.' And, 3. To 'direct the public attention to the arts, by an institution for dithxsing the knowledge and facilitating the general intro duction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements. The first already constitutes the object of a most respectable the second is already provided for by the law of the land; and the third is nowofi'ered tothe consideration ofthe public.
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