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upon industrial progress that induced Huxley to remark, 

 so long ago as 1877, in urging the value of technical 

 education : 



I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase 

 a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred 

 thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. 

 It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge that 

 what these men did has produced untold millions of wealth, in 

 the narrowest economical sense of the word. Huxley. 



