Science and Industry 



natural growth which is favourable to the true 

 advance of knowledge. 



Industrial utility is everywhere imposing new 

 valuations upon the sciences and new directions 

 to their conduct, diverting a larger and larger pro- 

 portion of intellectual energy to those branches 

 which promise quick results in the shape of profit- 

 able industrial inventions. 



Though a narrowly utilitarian reign of science 

 is fraught with two dangers, the imposition of a 

 short instead of a long range of human utility, and 

 the interpretation of utility too exclusively in terms 

 of economic values, the rescue of the sciences from 

 vague intellectualism and the harnessing of them 

 to clearly conceived human services is the greatest 

 achievement, as it is the most important condition, 

 of modern progress. While each science needs 

 to retain an advance-guard of free explorers, not 

 hampered in their inquiry by conscious motives 

 of utility, but simply devoted to "the advance of 

 science," an army of less ambitious workers will 

 be continually engaged in assimilating their dis- 

 coveries, and applying them to the various arts of 

 life, and in particular to the arts of industry. 



How fast the arts of industry are becoming 

 dominated by the natural sciences is apparent 

 from the place taken by the engineer, the chemist, 

 and the electrician, in large fields of industry. 

 Take any highly evolved modern manufacturing 

 business, you will find these men performing two 

 important functions, the one concerned with main- 

 taining order, the other with securing progress. 



