33§ POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



To learn the elements of any science costs little. It can be learned 

 at one end of a log with a great teacher on the other. It can be even 

 learned without a teacher. But to master a science so as to extend its 

 boundaries — this is quite another thing. More than a man can earn 

 in a lifetime it costs to make a start — for this reason a university which 

 provides means for such work is a very costly establishment; for this 

 reason the investigator of the future must depend on the university. 

 The nation with the best equipped universities will furnish the best 

 trained men. On the universities the progress in manufactures and 

 commerce must depend. Through the superiority of training Germany 

 is passing England in the commercial world in spite of her handicaps 

 of position and history. Through the excellence of her universities, 

 without most of these handicaps, America is likely to excel both Ger- 

 many and England. 



As men of science are needed, they can not make themselves. Those 

 with power can help them.- This fact has given the impulse to the far 

 reaching gifts of Stanford, Eockefeller, Carnegie and Ehodes. These 

 are not gifts but investments, put to the credit of the country's future. 

 The people too have power. The same feeling of investment has led 

 them to build their state universities and to entrust to them not only 

 the work of personal culture, but of advancement in literature, science 

 and arts. With general culture and professional training must go the 

 advancement of knowledge, the progress of society, through the advance- 

 ment of the wisdom and the power of man. 



