The valedictory address, delivered before the athenaeum of Toronto, at the close of their annual session, on Thursday, April 30, 1846.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Or like a gallant horse, fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled.Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours."But we should ever bear in mind that we must not trust too much to the mere spontaneous growth of such associations.We must be willing, some of us, to put the shoulder to the wheel, and keep them up perforce.Then we may inspire ourselves with a confidence that we shall ultimately succeed.No large town of the parent-country is without its public library and its literary institu- tions.They seem to be natural wants.There will be always found a few in every community to feel a sincere interest in such objects,-to feel an attachment to them, and a readiness to exert " Go up and watch the new-born rill Just trickling from its mossy bed, Streaking the heath-clad hill With a bright emerald thread.Canst thou her bold career foretell, What rocks she shall o'erleap or rend, How far in Ocean's swell Her freshening billows send ?"Time was, DTsraeli tells us, when the Royal Library of France consisted only of twenty volumes ; and the Public Library of Oxford of a few tracts kept in a chest.Our collections already therefore exceed the Royal Library of France in 1364, and the University Library of Oxford in 1300.' What thing wants quiet and merry rest, Endures but a small while.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.572 | 0.292 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".