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attempt of the nation to fit itself to a con- 

 tinuously changing environment. The nation 

 has to foresee how and where the struggle 

 will be carried on ; the maintenance of 

 national position is becoming more and more 

 a conscious preparation for changing con- 

 ditions, an insight into the needs of coming 

 environments. 



This is the second important duty of 

 "science in relation to national life. It has 

 to develop our brain-power by providing a 

 training in method, and by exercising our 

 powers of cautious observation. It has to 

 teach not only the leaders of our national 

 life, but the people at large, to prepare for 

 and meet the difficulties of new environments. 

 This is the only sort of technical education 

 the nation ought to trouble about, the teach- 

 ing people to see and to think. It is not 

 the art of a particular trade which we want 

 to teach in the schools, but the power of 

 observing and reasoning upon observation. 



There is a most simple description of true 

 science which is embraced in the words : 

 Keep your eyes open and apply common-sense. 

 That is the keynote to the conduct of the 



