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tion science bears to one industry. The argument 

 becomes cumulative as other industries are considered 

 and other ties which connect them to science are dis- 

 covered. 



In these illustrations peculiar emphasis has been 

 given to the real monetary value of science in the in- 

 dustry. And say what we will, this is the measure 

 which is the final test of all value in every industry. 

 What does not pay, at once or ultimately, will never 

 find a lasting place. This does not arise from the fact 

 that men are wholly mercenary, but happily from the 

 fact that nature is so constituted that it is the best that 

 always in the long run pays best. 



TETJE PLEASURE ALWAYS MOEAL. 



Herbert Spencer has shown, in his admirable system 

 of philosophy, that pleasure is the ultimate test of all 

 virtue, morality and right living. What we call virtue, 

 morality and right living, are really so because they 

 confer finally on men the greatest happiness and afford 

 them the greatest pleasure. 



If a life of vice were at once and ultimately capable 

 of producing greater pleasures, then vice would become 

 virtue and virtue vice. And the same principle will be 

 found underlying the industries and arts. 



Those influences and conditions which at once or 

 finally bring forth most from any given outlay of capi- 

 tal and labor, are the conditions and influences which 

 are right and proper. 



Science shows here its most intimate relations to 

 every industry. It is its peculiar province to husband 

 all natural resources, to make the most out of every 

 exercise of energy, to direct in the right path every 

 budding enterprise, and to open up new possibilities 



