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which should havo been done. Beinp; an inventor, without the knowledge 

 of eithei' the scientist ov llie business man, is indeed a misfortune. 



To lit a man for tliis ]ii<;li callin';- our teclinieal scliools are estab- 

 lislied. They put a younj; man in tlie way of becoming what we have 

 liere described. He there learns the elements of a series of sciences 

 and their ai>]>li(ations which it is absolutely necessary for him 1o 

 know. Jf he jirecedes or accompanies this training with a considerable 

 amount of laboratory and shop practice, such as is now given in all 

 our leading technical schools, and if he also spends his vacation at 

 such work, he learns something of the ])ra(tical api)lications of scientific 

 knowledge and the mechanic's art. Supi)l(niienting this with a knowl- 

 edge of tlie business world and of men, cultivating a ])leasing address, 

 but schooling himself to the strictist honesty of motive and act, both 

 with himself and towards others, he becomes favorably known. If in 

 addition to these he remains a constant student, and ])Ossesses a sutli- 

 cient amount of invention, he should ultimately become the Applied 

 Scientist par excellence; such a man could safely be consulted in the 

 solution of new problems, and this is the special field of the applied 

 scientist. 



TIIK ACHIEVEMENTS OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES. 



When we ponder on these marvellous achievements of one short 

 century, mostly by a crude empiricism in applying the discoveries of 

 science, what may we not hope for from the endless future with an 

 intelligent direction given to the labors of those who seek to garner 

 the fruits of all science and not to know the law but to control its 

 operation, to harness the very laws of nature to the car of human 

 Xjrogress? 



THE BLESSINGS OF MATERIAL WEALTH. 



While material progress and prosperity are not the highest good, they 

 bring the conditions which make the higher life possible. You can- 

 not develop a man spiritually until he is supplied with the comforts 

 of life and has leisure in which to cultivate the spiritual graces. Let us 

 also not be afraid of too much material prosperity. We are learning 

 the generous uses of wealth. Wealth is more and more being turned 

 into channels of popular scientific and industrial education, and this 

 education in turn leads legitimately to greater wealth and also to a 

 greater interest in the high things of this life and to lessening interest 

 in the selfish, and sensuous, and fashionable, and frivolous, and idle 

 amusements of life. In fact, this education in the physical realities 

 of life is the onlv form of education which will snrelv win the interest 

 of the man of business and of affairs as against the counter attractions 

 of money-making and money-spending. AVhen the passion for yacht- 

 ing and horse racing has been supplanted b,y a passion for developing 

 the resources of nature, and for discovering new truth and applying 

 it to the ever increasing needs of modern society; when the love of 

 personal display and the desire to excel one's neighbors in a vulgar 

 shoAv of wealth has been sux)planted by a love of the true and beauti- 

 ful in nature, which leads of necessity to a higher appreciation of the 

 true and beautiful in life; when, in short, the lower, narrower, and 

 more selfish interests of the wealthy class have been replaced by those 

 higher and more altruistic interests which come only with a broader 



