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a vulgar materialism. " Truer relations of science 

 to industry are implied in Greek mythology. Vul- 

 can, the god of industry, wooed science, in the form 

 of Minerva, vi^ith a passionate love, but the chaste 

 goddess never married, although she conferred upon 

 mankind nearly as many arts as Prometheus, v^^ho, 

 like other inventors, saw civilisation progressing by 

 their use while he lay groaning in want on Mount 

 Caucasus." * 



* Sir Lyon Playfair, Pres. Address, Rep. Brit. Ass., 1885, 

 p. 17. 



