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\\vlfaiv is <le|H ml. -lit on successful industry. And this, also, is 

 tlu- distinctive work of the many similar institutions that, 

 under the fostering influences of private liberality and public- 

 bounty, are springing up in other States, and are variously 

 known as Polytechnic Institutes, Schools of Industrial Sri. ace, 

 Schools or Institutes of Technology, Scientific Schools, Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical Colleges, Schools of Mining, and tin- 

 like. They are all organized and administered on the assump- 

 tion, that Scientific Education is of vital importance to cir .'- 

 fized industry. Is this assumption correct ? 



I propose to show that it is that a prime element in the 

 success of industry is scientific knowledge in other words, 

 that, in view of the relations actually existing between the 

 sciences and the arts of life, the industrial world is right in 

 looking to the sciences and to scientific institutions for aid in 

 the future development of its resources. 



In what I have to say on this subject, it is not my purpose 

 to exalt science, or scientific training, at the expense of prac- 

 tical experience. Each has its appropriate work. Science has 

 sometimes, doubtless, been too indiscriminately lauded, and 

 results ascribed to her agency, for which she could not justly 

 claim credit. To assume that all progress in the industrial 

 arts, and all the blessings they have conferred on man, are the 

 sole and direct fruits of science, is to take ground which a just 

 discrimination and the facts of history do not warrant. 



The truth is, that when we examine the several arts we find 

 them indebted to the sciences in very different degrees, and 

 some of them scarcely at all. The arts may be arranged, then, 

 as it respects their relation to the sciences, in two classes the 

 empirical and the scientific ; the first, the mere results of 

 experience the second, of experience controlled by general 

 principles ; the first, embracing the simpler and more necessary 



