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doubt that, in view of the relation of Physical Sci- 

 ence to the practical life of the present day, it has 

 the same right as Theology, Law, and Medicine, 

 to a Faculty of its own in which men shall be 

 trained to be professional men of science. It may 

 be doubted whether L^niversities are the places for 

 technical schools of Engineering or applied Chem- 

 istry, or Agriculture. But there can surely be 

 little question, that instruction in the branches 

 of Science which lie at the foundation of these 

 Arts, of a far more advanced and special character 

 than could, with any propriety, be included in the 

 ordinary Arts Curriculum, ought to be obtainable 

 by means of a duly organised Faculty of Science in 

 every University. 



The establishment of such a Faculty would 

 have the additional advantage of providing, in 

 some measure, for one of the greatest wants of our 

 time and country. I mean the proper support and 

 encouragement of original research. 



The other day, an emphatic friend of mine 

 committed himself to the opinion that, in Eng- 

 land, it is better for a man's worldly prospects to 

 be a drunkard, than to be smitten with the divine 

 dipsomania of the original investigator. I am in- 

 clined to think he was not far wrong. And, be it 

 observed, that the question is not, whether such a 

 man shall be able to make as much out of his 

 abilities as his brother, of like ability, who goes 

 into Law, or Engineering, or Commerce; it is not 



