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indispensable. As the cow to be milked for market- 

 able knowledge, it is beginning also to be realised 

 that in times of peace, or rather the peaceful war of 

 industrialism and commerce that is expected to 

 follow the signing of the terms of peace, science is 

 as important and indispensable as it is for open 

 hostilities. Plenty there will be to advocate its 

 claims under these heads. 



But its third claim as the goddess, as indispens- 

 able for the enrichment of the life of the common 

 people and the elevation of ideals, is the one with 

 which I am to-day most nearly concerned ; in the 

 words of Huxley, " in the conviction which has 

 grown up with my growth and strengthened with my 

 strength, that there is no alleviation to the sufferings 

 of mankind except veracity of thought and action, 

 and the resolute facing of the world as it is when 

 the garment of make-believe with which pious 

 hands have hidden its uglier features has been 

 stripped off." 



I know some of you are great readers, and I can 

 recommend to you, for this aspect of science, a book 

 by Professor R. A. Gregory called Discovery, or the 

 Spirit and Service of Science. Whilst as specially 

 concerned with chemistry and what it has accom- 

 plished for the material well-being and uplifting of 

 mankind, the recent Thomson lectures in Aberdeen 

 by Professor Findlay, now issued under the title 

 of Chemistry in the Service of Man, will probably be 

 a revelation to those to whom the term chemistry 

 has hitherto meant either an apothecary or an 

 analyst. 



I may quote one passage from the former : 



" Blessing and honour and glory and power are 

 not the usual rewards of a life devoted to science. 

 All the benefits of modern civilisation are due to the 

 achievements of science or inventions based upon 



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