TRUE RELATION OF SCIENCE TO INDUSTRIES 281 



in experimental and practical agricultural work which 

 the State and country have provided. 



THE DIGNITY OF LABOR. 



Manual labor is the source of all wealth and happi- 

 ness. No man fully measures up to the full stature of 

 manhood who shirks it altogether. To labor with the 

 hands is as honorable as it is necessary to human exist- 

 ence. Science encourages this habit of manual labor, 

 and at the same time directs it to the best and most 

 profitable results. Considered in all its aspects, there- 

 fore, we must allow to science the possession of a most 

 intimate relation to all that pertains to real industrial 

 and artistic achievements. Most certainly must we ad- 

 mit that, as society is at present arranged, it would be 

 quite impossible that every artisan should receive a 

 thorough scientific education. Most boys and girls are 

 financially debarred from this. The eternal and insist- 

 ent cry of the stomach is the first business which every 

 person must attend to. When this is accomplished, in 

 most cases, there is no time or opportunity for anything 

 else. I have no Utopian view of universal technical 

 education to offer here to-day. In these matters I am 

 neither pessimist nor optimist, and only an agnostic by 

 necessity. But if the cold facts of existence must make 

 ninety-nine shiver through life let the one be warm, and 

 be able to devise means whereby the ninety-nine may 

 shiver less. One thoroughly educated artisan will prove 

 an inestimable blessing to a community of uneducated 

 artisans. And so it happens that, while science works 

 apparently only for the few, in reality it is the many 

 who reap the great benefit. Unhappily the forces of 

 Evil are more keen than those of Good to apply the dis- 

 coveries of science. Peace is not served as well as war. 



