112 SCIENCE AND THE WAR 



is ? thought of science in certain academic 

 circles. Of course it may be urged I have 

 actually heard it urged that nothing is science 

 save that which is treatable by mathematical 

 methods. It was a kind of inverted M. Jourdain 

 who used this argument, a gentleman who 

 imagined himself to have been teaching science 

 during a long life without ever having effected 

 what he supposed to be his object. Then, 

 again, our manufacturer, whose object in life is 

 to make money, is naturally, perhaps even 

 necessarily, affected by the kind of salaries which 

 highly trained and highly eminent men of science 

 receive by way of reward for their work. Few, 

 if any, receive anything like the emoluments 

 attaching to the position of County Court Judge, 

 and I know of only one case in which a Professor's 

 income, to the delight and envy of all the teaching 

 profession, actually, for a few years, soared some- 

 what near the empyrean of a Puisne Judge's 

 reward. 



Perhaps this is not to be wondered at ; for 

 Parliament always contains many lawyers, and at 

 the moment, I think, not a single scientific expert, 

 at least among the Commons. This is not really 

 a sordid argument, though it may appear so. 

 The labourer, after all, is worthy of his hire ; but 

 in the scientific world it very, very seldom happens 

 that the hire is worthy of the labourer. Even 

 to this day there is plenty of truth in the descrip- 

 tion of the attitude of Mr. Meagles towards Mr. 

 Doyce as detailed by the author of Little Dorrit. 

 Perhaps that is partly because it is generally the 



