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development of cotton-growing in new districts, intensive 

 scientific research being outside their province in either case. 

 The organisations already existing form, however, material upon 

 which and through which the spinner and the grower are coming 

 into closer contact, with the consequent discovery that only 

 natural science can give them a common language. Some may 

 object that science, far from giving them a common language, 

 has merely wrapped up the meaning of its results in technical 

 jargon. This is, however, inevitable as a stage in constructive 

 work. For the interchange of ideas between investigators of 

 many lands, terms of precise meaning are an unpleasant 

 necessity; for the individual student they serve as nuclei for 

 the crystallisation of his ideas ; it is only in the finished work 

 that they can be translated into common language. It would be 

 illogical to conclude that the amount of technicality in the 

 literature of a subject is an exact index to the activity of 

 research therein, but it is not altogether without significance 

 that the use of technicalities is extremely infrequent in writings 

 which deal with cotton. 



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