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care a rap, and don't believe anyone with 

 educational interests at heart does care a 

 rap, for the facts and formulae and results of 

 science being crammed into all classes of the 

 community ; they may be useful enough to 

 men of special trades and professions. But 

 what the nation does want in order to 

 strengthen its civil and commercial life is a 

 great increase in its powers of observation 

 in its knowledge of scientific method and of 

 the nature of scientific reasoning. The rest, 

 the greater efficiency in trade and handicraft, 

 will follow surely enough on that. Make 

 the man intellectually stronger, and he will 

 be a better soldier, a better trader, and a 

 better craftsman Teach the man how to 

 scout in the first place, and then he will 

 know for himself the sort of equipment he 

 wants and how it is to be provided. You 

 furnish a charger and a sword, where per- 

 adventure a pony and a hatchet are what the 

 trained scout would select for himself. Know- 

 ledge is the equipment which the trained 

 mind can find for itself, but the training is a 

 thing you have got to provide for it, and the 

 national value of science lies first in the 



