CHAPTER X 



PRACTICAL PURPOSE 



Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy. 

 C. H. Parkhurst. * 



A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. 

 Marc.us Aurelius. 



Still o'er the earth hastes opportunity 



Seeking the hardy soul that seeks for her. J. R. Lowell. 



The Time, is great 



(What tim.es are little ? To the sentinel 

 That hour is regal when he mounts on guard.) 



George Eliot. 



There are two distinct classes of men : first, those who work 

 at enlarging the boundaries of .knowledge, and secondly, 

 those who apply that knowledge to useful ends. Prof. 

 R. W- von Bunsen. 



SCIENTIFIC investigations carried on with the single 

 motive of acquiring new knowledge often lead, as we 

 have seen, to results of great practical value. Such 

 applications are, however, only incidental, and in the 

 world of science they provide no test of the importance 

 of the work done. The practical man judges scientific 

 research from the point of view of its direct service to 

 humanity, or that of money-making capacity ; and he 

 considers that people who devote their lives to studies 

 having neither of these profitable objects in mind are 

 wasting their time and abusing their intellectual 

 faculties. 



