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which such influences will exert and do exert on the 

 industries of the land, and that, too, aside from any 

 idea of increased monetary value. 



LOVE AOT> REVERENCE FOR THE TRUTH. 



Science, while it reveals the constitution of matter 

 and makes known the laws of its change, inculcates at 

 the same time a love and reverence for the truth. No 

 one can study carefully the inviolable verities of nature 

 without realizing that truth is the only thing which can 

 endure. 



Science can neither he cajoled, threatened nor bribed. 

 Science never lies and is never deceived by a lie. No 

 boy can go through with the simplest exercise in chem- 

 ical quantitative analysis, and not have his moral na- 

 ture strengthened thereby. Eeverence for the truth, 

 hatred of error; these are two ideas which are always 

 uppermost in the scientific mind. While, therefore, 

 science spreads information, it also teaches morality. 

 When every industry and art are fully imbued with 

 these two ideas they will not only attain their maximum 

 value as wealth-producers, but also become the most 

 potent factors of happiness-making in the world. And 

 every one wishes to see this. Honest industries, skilled 

 arts, honest laborers, skilled artisans; these are the 

 pride and the salvation of the country. 



I have not time to discuss this subject further. At 

 the very beginning I was oppressed with the thought 

 that in one short essay I could not more than make a 

 fair introduction of the subject. I repeat the thought 

 in closing with which I began : Science is the mother 

 of industries and arts. She is the mother who brings 

 them forth, and it is always parthenogenesis. She is 

 the mother who protects them in the years of their help- 



