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The further and fuller investigation of the many and 

 ever-opening problems of the nascent science which includes 

 both Life and Non-Life are among the main purposes of the 

 Institute I am opening to-day ; in these fields I am already 

 fortunate in having a devoted band of disciples, whom I have 

 been training for the last ten years. Their number is very 

 limited, but means may perhaps be forthcoming in the future 

 to increase them. An enlarging field of young ability 

 may thus be available, from which will emerge, with time 

 and labour, individual originality of research, productive 

 invention and some day even creative genius. 



But high success is not to be obtained without corre- 

 sponding experimental exactitude, and this is needed to-day 

 more than ever, and to-morrow yet more again. Hence 

 the long battery of the highly sensitive instruments and 

 apparatus, designed here, which stands before you in the 

 cases in our entrance hall. They will tell you of the pro- 

 tracted struggle to get behind the deceptive seeming into 

 the reality that remained unseen ; of the continuous toil 

 and persistence called forth for overcoming human limita- 

 tions. In these directions through the ever-increasing 

 ingenuity of device for advancing science, I see at no distant 

 future an enhancement of skill and of invention among our 

 workers ; and if this skill be assured, practical applications 

 will not fail to follow in many fields of human activity. 



The advance of science is the principal object of this 

 Institute and also the diffusion of knowledge. We are here 

 in the largest of all the many chambers of this House of 

 Knowledge its Lecture Room. In adding this feature, 

 and on a scale hitherto unusual in a Research Institute, 

 I have sought permanently to associate the advancement 

 of knowledge with the widest possible civic and public 

 diffusion of it ; and this without any academic limitations, 

 henceforth to all races and languages, to both men and 

 women alike, and for all time coming. 



The lectures given here will not be mere repetitions 

 of second-hand knowledge. They will announce, to an 



