34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
all that, there can be no doubt that a sympathetic appreciation of 
his work is a most grateful and effectual stimulus to the scientific 
investigator, and in most cases beyond the pleasure that his labour 
itself brings, it is the only reward he can have or hope for. 
Now the amount of sympathy and appreciation that a scientific 
investigator gets is in direct proportion to the number of his fellow 
men who are capable of understanding his work, and whose tastes 
are cultivated sufficiently to awaken in them an intelligent interest 
in it. Here, then, we have another cogent argument in favour of 
the importance of the diffusion of scientific knowledge among the 
people. 
Then scientific investigation costs money. It demands, in the 
first place, leisure on the part of the investigator. Then the appara- 
tus required in exact researches is frequently most expensive, and is 
every day becoming more so. The time has gone by when discove- 
ries which revolutionize science can be made with a few glass bottles 
and a pair of apothecary’s scales. To do good work instruments of 
the greatest refinement and delicacy are absolutely necessary, and 
such instruments are not to be had for nothing. In many cases the 
apparatus used for a particular research is of no further use when 
that research is completed, and becomes of merely historic value. 
Then there is publication, the cost of which we have already consid- 
ered. Again, a philosopher is not born but made. True, nature 
must do her part, but what would avail the genius of a Newton or of 
a Lavoisier if— 
ce 
—— Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne’er unrol, 
Chill penury repressed their noble rage, 
And froze the genial current of their soul.” 
The man who is to accomplish anything in science must have ascien- 
tific training, and a scientific training means laboratories, lecture 
rooms, apparatus, books and instructors, and here again the question 
of cost stares us in the face. 
Now, science is never self-supporting. The application of science 
to the arts is often extremely profitable. The cultivation of pure 
science is never so ; yet upon this cultivation of pure science all the 
applications of science directly depend. It is then adsolutely neces- 
sary to the advancement of science that scientific institutions of vari- 
ous kinds should be supported by generous donations either from the 
