SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: NOTES OF 

 AN AFTER-DJNNEK, SPEECH 



[1869] 



[MR. THACKERAY, talking of after-dinner speeches, hag 

 lamented that "one never can recollect the fine things one 

 thought of in the cab," in going to the place of entertain, 

 ment. I am not aware that there are any " fine things " in 

 the following pages, but such as there are stand to a speech 

 which really did get itself spoken, at the hospitable table of 

 the Liverpool Philomathic Society, more or less in the 

 position of what " one thought of in the cab."] 



THE introduction of scientific training into the 

 general education of the country is a topic upon 

 which I could not have spoken, without some more 

 or less apologetic introduction, a few years ago. 

 But upon this, as upon other matters, public 

 opinion has of late undergone a rapid modification. 

 Committees of both Houses of the Legislature have 

 agreed that something must be done in this direc- 



