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4. "Laborare est orare" is an old motto, and so, when we see the 

 high ideals of a Newton, a Kepler, a Clerk Maxv/ellor an Agassiz, worked 

 out into discovery we regard their research as high work — a moral ex- 

 ploit. In short, the persistent, honest, self-denying work of the earnest 

 seeker after truth is surely a high virtue. 



The Means. 



If then Research is all this, how are we to secure it to our Country? 



I. If it is a national asset and a benefit to all the people, then it is a 

 fit subject for Government assistance. Probably the hundreds of bril- 

 liant Canadians who have gone abroad and are in the service of foreign 

 nations could all have been saved to Canadian education and Canadian 

 Manufacture by judicious Government action. If during our rising en- 

 trance upon manufacturing in Canada which has been very remarkable 

 in the last forty years, the Government had understood and taken ac- 

 tion, the result would be very different. 



The total for additional Government grants to Universities and other 

 high-class institutions (chiefly for Science) in the British Empire for 1910 

 was about six and a half millions of dollars. All that I find included in 

 this from the Dominion Government is for Experimental Farms, $87,500. 

 Of large sums voted for the Universities and Technical Schools in Germ- 

 any for general purposes, it is well known that a great portion of this is 

 voted by the States in order that advanced Technical Education may be 

 given. Even little Switzerland, among the clouds, is so practical that a 

 Swiss professor remarked to me: — "When we want a new professor in 

 our Universities and Technical Schools v/e choose him first on the basis 

 of his being able to carry on Research, and after that on account of his 

 power to teach." The Federal Government of Switzerland, while 

 allowing the Cantons to carry on and pay entirely for the Universities 

 and subordinate schools, keeps up at its own expense the only Technical 

 School of University rank in Switzerland, and it does this in a most gen- 

 erous way. In Holland, while the Universities are left to manage gen- 

 eral culture, in the old town of Delft the most magnificent of Technical 

 Schools is found. It carries on every variety of Industrial Research and 

 is maintained entirely by the General Government. 



In Denmark, which we have not been accustomed to look upon as a 

 rich country, the General Government gave last year to Agricultural 

 Societies for Research and Experiment: 



Experiments in Agriculture and Veterinary High School $ 2,530. 



Royal Society for Research in Plant Culture 29,500. 



Bacteriological Investigation of Serums, Vaccine, &c 78,000. 



Total for Research $144,580. 



