DAIRY MEETING. l6l 



diate ancestors, nor am I expecting them in my posterity. It 

 may be that some of your famiHes are not supplied with gen- 

 iuses. In that case, we need something which we would not 

 need if we had genius. The genius may succeed without train- 

 ing, but other people need it. Many of us are in the category 

 of the other people. No one claims that technical training is 

 all that is necessary for the practice of any profession or occu- 

 pation. So far only the laws have taken us — a physician, a law- 

 yer, a pharmacist, must have certain technical training. It is 

 possible, then, to enter the practice of these professions with 

 nothing but the technical training, that is, without the education 

 of a college or univec'sity, or of any higher institution of learn- 

 ing, in some cases even without the high school preparation ; but 

 at least the public has recognized that a technical training must 

 be provided. Apprenticeship, which at one time was the road 

 to the professions, is no longer able to lead to the success 

 obtained through a technical training. An unprepared man 

 needs to be told what to observe, and then he may observe the 

 wrong thing, or he may draw wrong conclusions from his obser- 

 vation. I have no doubt that almost every one in the audience 

 has had experience with some one in his employ whom he has 



told to go and observe something and if so and so results, to do 

 certain things. He has gone there and either having observed 



the wrong thing or drawn the wrong conclusion, the result has 

 been disaster to your cattle, your money, or some other thing in 

 which you are interested. The time for the mastery of profes- 

 sions and occupations by mere practice has gone by. Schools 

 of art, institutions of technology, schools of design, were never 

 invented for the mere mental exercise of invention. They 

 would never have been established if there had not been a 

 demand for them, a demand on both sides, demand bv the work- 

 ers themselves for superior training, and demand by the public 

 for workers trained in a superior manner. The very existence 

 of schools of technology, of agricultural colleges, of schools for 

 textile training, for watch making, and the innumerable other 

 devices for teaching the actual practice of something, which you 

 see advertised in all your papers, show that there is a demand 

 for these things or there could not be a supply. Demand pre- 

 cedes supply. I think that is a safe economic proposition. Sup- 

 ply does not always create demand, but demand will always 

 bring about a supply. The competition in modern life has be- 

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