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other, supplement each other's defects, bring out each 

 other's higher tendencies, counteract each other's 

 lower ones. The scientific man has something to 

 learn of you, gentlemen, which I doubt not that he 

 will learn in good time. You, again, have as I have 

 been hinting to you to-night something to learn of 

 him, which you, I doubt not, will learn in good time 

 likewise. Repeat, each of you according to his powers, 

 the old friendship between Aristotle and Alexander; 

 and so, from your mutual sympathy and co-operation, 

 a class of thinkers and actors may yet arise which 

 can save this nation, and the other civilised nations 

 of the world, from that of which I had rather not 

 speak, and wish that I did not think too often and 

 too earnestly. 



I may be a dreamer; and I may consider, in my 

 turn, as wilder dreamers than myself, certain persons 

 who fancy that their only business in life is to make 

 money, the scientific man's only business is to show 

 them how to make money, and the soldier's only 

 business to guard their money for them. Be that as it 

 may, the finest type of civilised man which we are 

 likely to see for some generations to come, will be 

 produced by a combination of the truly military with 

 the truly scientific man. I say I may be a dreamer ; 

 but you at least, as well as my scientific friends, will 

 bear with me ; for my dream is to your honour. 



