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we cau shovv Dr. Tyndall the church, the chapel, the joss-house, all in 

 a row, and, perhaps, considering his forlorn, celibate condition, he may 

 be conscience-stricken when we display before his astonished eyes the 

 much-married men of Mormondom. 



Nowhere in the world are to be found more imposing political prob- 

 lems than those to be settled here ; nowhere a greater need of scien- 

 tific knowledge. I am not speaking of ourselves alone, but also of our 

 Canadian friends, on the other side of the St. Lawrence. We must 

 join together iu generous emulation of the best that is done in Europe. 

 In her Majesty's representative, Lord Dnfferin, they will find an eager 

 appreciation of all that they may do. Together we must try to refute 

 what De Tocqueville has said about us : that communities such as ours 

 can never have a love of pure science. But, whatever may be the glory 

 of our future intellectual life, let us both never forget what we owe to 

 England. Hers is the language that we speak ; hers are all our ideas of 

 liberty and law. To her literature, as to a fountain of light, we repair. 

 The torch of science that is shining here was kindled at her midnight 

 lamp. 



SCIENCE AND PUBLIC. AFFAIES. 1 



By President ANDREW D. WHITE, 



OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 



MR. CHAIRMAN : There is a legend well known to most of us 

 and which has an advantage over most legends in that it is 

 substantially true that a very distinguished man of science in this 

 country was once approached by an eminent practical man, and urged 

 to turn his great powers in scientific investigation and exposition to 

 effect in making a fortune. 



And, to the great surprise of that man of business, the man of sci- 

 ence responded, " But, my dear sir, I have no time to waste in making 

 money.'''' 



Of all the recent great results of science, I think, sir, that those 

 words have struck deepest and sped farthest in the average carnal 

 mind on our side the Atlantic. 



" No time to waste in making money ! " I have stood sir, in the 

 presence of a very eminent man of affairs one whose word is a power 

 in the great marts of the world, and watched him as he heard for the 

 first time this astonishing dictum. He stood silent apparently in 

 awe. The words seemed to reverberate among; the convolutions of his 

 brain, and to be reechoed far away, back, from depth to depth, among 

 the deepest recesses of his consciousness " No time to waste in mak- 

 ing money ! " 



1 Address at the Farewell Banquet to Professor Tyndall. 



