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also, of some other words I used at that time, and which 

 I ask permission to read to you. They were these : " There 

 are other forms of culture besides physical science, and I 

 should be profoundly sorry to see the fact forgotten, or 

 even to observe a tendency to starve or cripple literary or 5 

 aesthetic culture for the sake of science. Such a narrow 

 view of the nature of education has nothing to do with 

 my firm conclusion that a complete and thorough scientific 

 culture ought to be introduced into all schools." 



I say I desire, in commenting upon these various points, 10 

 and judging them as fairly as I can by the light of in- 

 creased experience, to particularly emphasize this last, be- 

 cause I am told, although I assuredly do not know it of 

 my own knowledge though I think if the fact were so 

 I ought to know it, being tolerably well acquainted with 15 

 that which goes on in the scientific world, and which has 

 gone on .there for the last thirty years that there is a 

 kind of sect, or horde, of scientific Goths and Vandals, 

 who think it would be proper and desirable to sweep 

 away all other forms of culture and instruction, except 20 

 those in physical science, and to make them the universal 

 and exclusive, or, at any rate, the dominant training of 

 the human mind of the future generation. This is not 

 my view I do not believe that it is anybody's view but 

 it is attributed to those who, like myself, advocate scientific 25 

 education. I therefore dwell strongly upon the point, and 

 I beg you to believe that the words I have just now read 

 were by no means intended by me as a sop to the Cerberus 

 of culture. I have not been in the habit of offering sops 

 to any kind of Cerberus ; but it was an expression of pro- 30 

 found conviction on my own part a conviction forced 

 upon me not only by my mental constitution, but by the 

 lessons of what is now becoming a somewhat long experi- 

 ence of varied conditions of life. 



