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from others. The habit of accumulation was so strong that if a 

 m.lhonaire presented a park or a costly public building to a populous 

 town, even when by so doing he did not deprive either himself, or any 

 of h.s children, of a single comfort or enjoyment, he was thought to do 

 an extraordinarily liberal thing. One of the greatest developments of 

 education during the last quarter of a century has been in the 

 direction of the cultivation of material and physical sciences. You- 

 will, perhaps, hardly believe that, until long after the middle of the 

 19th century, scarcely any subjects were studied at the Universities 

 and Public Schools but the classics, as they were called, i.e., the 

 language and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and mathematics 

 and nearly all the other schools,-even those, the pupils in which were 

 intended mostly to be tradesmen or clerks,- followed suit. Now as 

 you are well aware, science is considered at least equal in importance 

 to the older subjects of study, and eveiy provincial town has its school 

 of science. 



I remember the struggle we had to establish ours at Brighton 

 I recollect Sir John Mayall-he had not been knighted then- 

 was one of its most active promoters. It was out of pure 

 hberality that he made what was then thought (and was so at the tfme 



rewaid. He told me as long ago as the year 1890 that it was while 



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 on the Grand parade that the process occurred to him by which 

 aluminium could be inexpensively extracted from the mud of Shorehlm 

 Harbour and converted into teaspoons and other articles of plat" 

 This discovery was the germ of that great Metallic Plate and Furnt 

 tureFtory which he has established at Lancing, an industry that 

 ha revolutionised the furniture trade, and has had so large a share 

 in the development of the « Liverpool of the South." 



You were kind enough to take with me the leap to A.D. 1900 Will 

 you accompany me as I go back at a bound to 1876 vn., ^^ ! 

 yourself nearly a quarter of a century the ou ge 7 t" Id f 

 some of the comments I have nenned ->. .J ■ '~ '^ 



