230 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE 



SCIENCE AND OCCUPATION. In an address 

 with this title (Journal of Education, June, 1904), 

 Mr. Benchara Branford expounds "this deep 

 truth, that all theory, all knowledge, all the broad 

 groups of sciences, originally sprang from the 

 experience gathered by man from one or other 

 of his numerous occupations." "We must not 

 imagine that science floats, as it were, in the clouds, 

 serenely isolated from the hum and bustle and 

 occupations of the busy world, and developing 

 in some mysterious way of its own." "Science 

 ultimately sprang, and is continually springing, 

 from the desires and efforts of men to increase 

 their skill in their occupations by understanding 

 the eternal principles that underlie all dealings 

 of man with Nature and of man with his fellow- 

 men." "And if science ultimately has sprung 

 from, and is continually springing anew from, 

 occupations, science has repaid the debt both 

 by rendering those who follow her teaching more 

 skilled in their occupations and by actually giving 

 rise by her discoveries to absolutely new types 

 of occupations. One of the great conditions of 

 human progress is this unceasing reciprocal 

 relationship between occupation and science, 

 each constantly producing and being produced 

 by the other. Out of many instances I shall 

 choose one striking example of the development 

 of science from occupation. 



