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But, such as it is, it has been reached by this 

 system of comparison, which, though I speak 

 of it now in its application to the study of Nat- 

 ural History, is equally important in every other 

 branch of knowledge. By the same process the 

 most mature results of scientific research in 

 Philology, in Ethnology, and in Physical Sci- 

 ence are reached. And let me say that the 

 community should foster the purely intellect- 

 ual efforts of scientific men as carefully as 

 they do their elementary schools and their 

 practical institutions, generally considered so 

 much more useful and important to the public. 

 For from what other source shall we derive the 

 higher results that are gradually woven into the 

 practical resources of our life, except from the 

 researches of those very men who study science, 

 not for its uses, but for its truth ? It is this that 

 gives it its noblest interest : it must be for truth's 

 sake, and not even for the sake of its usefulness 

 to humanity, that the scientific man studies Na- 

 ture. The application of science to the useful 

 arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other 

 tools than his ; and therefore I say that the man 

 of science who follows his studies into their 

 practical application is false to his calling. The 

 practical man stands ever ready to take up the 

 work where the scientific man leaves it, and to 

 adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily 

 life. 



