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available by our completed building, opportunity is afforded for 
the expansion of this work several fold. 
A brief word for scientific research and I am done. There is 
now nearing completion in this city one of the most stupendous 
works of engineering ever brought to a successful completion, I 
refer to the new water supply system. But what would the 
city say to the proposition that it should confine all of its efforts 
to building the conduit for this water, and should leave to some 
other city, or to some county, or to the state, the expense and the 
work of providing the reservoir and keeping it adequately sup- 
plied with water? The answer does not need to be stated. 
But now transfer the simile to education. What a sorry spec- 
tacle would be an institution such as ours, calling itself educa- 
tional and scientific, and yet content to be merely a conduit of 
information procured from a fountain head located elsewhere, 
and to which it made no contribution. It is the supreme—the 
supreme—business and duty of an institution like this, to be 
creative, productive; not merely a purveyor—a channel of dis- 
tribution. Our debt is to science as well as to the people. We 
owe it to the people to disseminate knowledge; we owe it to sci- 
ence not to be parasitic on the body of knowledge, but organically 
connected with it in a relationship of mutualism—of mutually 
advantageous symbiosis—giving as well as receiving, constantly 
enriching the storehouse from which we draw. This is the only 
relationship which makes for healthful vigor, for perennial en- 
thusiasm, for largest accomplishment, for the most valuable and 
solid service to the community. Does the great metropolis of 
New York wish otherwise—wish less than this for its educa- 
tional and scientific institutions? I believe it does not. We are 
now living in the early years of an epoch when municipal sup- 
port of the important work of finding out and learning how is to 
be considered as important and proper a function of municipal 
government as acquiring water sites and building aqueducts. 
In a recent address on “ The Support of Scientific Research in 
a Democracy,” Professor James McKeen Cattell called attention 
to the fact that the manufactures of the city of Pittsburgh and 
Allegheny county are worth more than three hundred million 
dollars a year. These manufactures have all been made possible 
