SCIENCE AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH — CARTY. 527 



realm of law and order ever fiiilher toward the unattainable goals 

 of the infinitely great and infinitely small, between which, our little 

 race of life is run." While a single discovery in pure science when 

 considered with reference to any particular branch of industry 

 may not appear to be of appreciable benefit, yet v>lien interpreted 

 by the industrial scientist, with whom I class the engineer and the 

 industrial chemist, and when adapted to practical uses by them, 

 the contributions of pure science as a whole become of incalculable 

 value to all the industries. 



I do not say this because a new incentive is necessary for the 

 pure scientist, for in him there must be some of the divine spark 

 and for him there is no higher motive than the search for the truth 

 itself. But surely this motive must be intensified by the knowledge 

 that when the search is rewarded there is sure to be found, sooner 

 or later, in the truth which has been discovered, the seeds of future 

 great inventions which will increase the comfort and convenience 

 and alleviate the sufferings of mankind. 



By all who study the subject, it will be found that while the dis- 

 coveries of the pure scientist are of the greatest importance to the 

 higher interests of mankind, their practical benefits, though certain, 

 are usually indirect, intangible, or remote. Pure scientific research 

 unlike industrial scientific research can not support itself by direct 

 pecuniary returns from its discoveries. 



The practical benefits which may be immediately and directly 

 traced to industrial research, when it is properly conducted, are so 

 great that when their importance is more generally recognized indus- 

 trial research will not lack the most generous encouragement and 

 support. Indeed, unless industrial research abundantly supports 

 itself it will have failed of its purpose. 



But who is to support the researches of the pure scientist, and who 

 is to furnish him v.dth encouragement and assistance to pursue his 

 self-sacrificing and arduous quest for that truth which is certain as 

 time goes on to bring in its train so many blessings to mankind? 

 Who is to furnish the laboratories, the funds for apparatus and for 

 traveling and for foreign study? 



Because of the extraordinary practical results which have been 

 attained by scientifically trained men working in the industrial 

 laboratories and because of the limited and narrow conditions under 

 which many scientific investigators have sometimes been compelled 

 to work in universities, it has been suggested that perhaps the theater 

 of scientific research might be shifted from the university to the great 

 industrial laboratories which have already grown up or to the even 

 greater ones which the future is bound to bring forth. But we can 

 dismiss this suggestion as being unworthy. 



