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Like many other statesmen and men of letters, 

 Mr. Gladstone was unaware of the greatness of his 

 scientific contemporaries. ' Who is Cuvier ? " asked 

 Louis Philippe, King of the French, when told that this 

 illustrious naturalist, founder of comparative anatomy 

 and palaeontology, and the most celebrated man of 

 science in France at the time, was dead. " Monsieur 

 Cuvier ? I believe he was one of the gentlemen employed 

 at the Jardin des Plantes," was the courtier's response. 

 A similar story is told of the last emperor of the French, 

 Napoleon III., who was asked by a German guest to be 

 introduced to the eminent physiologist, Claude Bernard. 

 " Claude Bernard ? Who is Claude Bernard ? " the 

 Emperor asked. " He is the most distinguished savant 

 in your Majesty's dominions," was the reply.. Truly 

 a man of science is not without honour except in his 

 own country and among his own people. 



It is time to understand that no man can now be con- 

 sidered to have received a liberal education unless he 

 has some acquaintance with the principles of science ; 

 and that the works of Darwin and Faraday are as worthy 

 of national honour as those of Tennyson and Scott. 

 The training which ends in literary culture without 

 science is just as incomplete as one which promotes 

 scientific knowledge without the power of clear expression. 



That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been 

 so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, 

 and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, 

 it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine 

 with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order ; 

 ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, 

 and spin the gossamers' as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; 

 whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and funda- 

 mental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations ; and 

 who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions 



