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SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: XOTES OF 

 AN AFTER-DIXXEH SPEECH 



[1869] 



[Mr. Thackeray, talking of after-dinner speeches, has 

 lamented that " one never can recollect the fine things 

 one thought of in the cab," in going to the place of en- 

 tertainment. I am not aware that there are any " fine 

 things " in the following pages, but such as there are 

 stand to a speech which really did get itself spoken, at 

 the hospitable table of the Liverpool Philomathic So- 

 ciety, more or less in the position of what " one thought 

 of in the cab."] 



The introduction of scientific training into the 

 general education of the country is a topic upon 

 which I could not have spoken, without some more 

 or less apologetic introduction, a few years ago. 

 But upon this, as upon other matters, public 

 opinion has of late undergone a rapid modification. 

 Committees of both Houses of the Legislature have 

 agreed that something must be done in this direc- 



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