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status of scientific men in courts of justice. As students 

 above all others single-minded in the pursuit of truth, as 

 trained observers, as careful and conscientious instructors, 

 they are entitled to be invited into court as the advisers and 

 enlighteners of the judge in regard to facts which he has 

 neither the time nor tbe opportunity to ascertain for him- 

 self, and not to be summoned as the witnesses of the advo- 

 cate. I say it with sorrow, but I think I can say it with 

 truth, that upon no class of minds has the progress of con- 

 temporaneous science had so little influence as upon the 

 legal; and no kind of business has been so slightly modified 

 by its influence as legal procedures. 



The other influences of science upon society are perhaps 

 more generally appreciated, though hardly with strict ad- 

 herence to the great law of sequence, or cause and effect, 

 which dominates everything within human cognizance. A 

 mere mention of them must suffice, lest I trespass unduly 

 on the courtesy to which I owe the present opportunity of 

 addressing you. 



Next in order to the spiritual advancement which I have 

 mentioned, are the habits of discipline and self-control 

 which are essential to any serious study of science. As 

 an educator, scientific training must be rated as coordinate 

 with mechanical skill. For, whereas, a person trained as 

 an artisan has always the power of earning a living, one 

 versed in accurate observation and reflection has greater 

 power of resisting the disturbing influences of evil than he 

 would otherwise possess. 



Thirdly, and lastly, by the labors of the investigator, the 

 inventor, is enabled to devise and perfect his application of 

 science to the ordinary wants of the community; a thing 

 which the man of science has rarely any opportunity of 



