22 CHEMISTRY 



should be their future study. Those who came 

 later to one of our Universities would bring a 

 rational appreciation of the direction in which 

 their own abilities should naturally lead them; 

 the great number of instances with which we are 

 all acquainted of men devoting themselves to 

 entirely unsuitable work would be considerably 

 diminished. 



The widening of the educational ambit of the 

 public schools on lines similar to those briefly 

 sketched above must lead to a great increase in 

 the number of science students presenting them- 

 selves in our Universities and science Colleges. 

 It will lead, by a process of natural selection, to 

 the classification of men suitable for careers in 

 the many different branches of scientific technology 

 which must shortly develop rapidly in the British 

 Isles. The provision of well-trained men for use 

 in our chemical industries will be assured. 



It has been shown in the course of this article 

 that many chemical discoveries which at first 

 appeared to possess a purely philosophical interest 

 have in the past very rapidly become of prime 

 importance as the foundations of new chemical 

 industries. Such chemical discoveries are only 

 to be made by picked men working under com- 

 paratively undisturbed conditions; the volume of 

 original chemical research which our science Colleges 

 and Universities have poured out annually in the 

 past needs to be increased. Men who prove 



