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cesses and fruitful principles. Professional duties 

 generally, ought to be more closely bound up 

 with strictly scientific work than they are at 

 present ; and this requirement would tend to 

 foster scientific tastes in minds which had little 

 inborn tendency that way. In respect to G, 

 the influence and encouragement of tutors, seeing 

 how far Scotland has surpassed England in the 

 attractiveness of her mode of teaching, which is 

 by professorial lectures rather than by class- 

 work, it is clear that the English system 

 admits of being greatly improved, and the in- 

 fluence of her teachers proportionately increased, 

 in turning the minds of youths to science. 

 Lastly, as regards H, travel in distant lands, 

 its indirect value deserves far more than the 

 moderate sums assigned to its prosecution, in 

 the way of starved travelling fellowships and 

 rare voyages of surveying ships. 



To sum up in a few words : it seems to me 

 that the interpretation to be put on the replies 

 we have now been considering, is that a love of 

 science might be largely extended by fostering, 

 and not thwarting, innate tendencies, by the 



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