CHAPTER VIII. 



BRAIN WORK AND MANUAL WORK. 



Divorce between science and handicraft Technical educa- 

 tion Complete education The Moscow system : applied 

 at Chicago, Boston, Aberdeen Concrete teaching Present 

 waste of time Science and technics Advantages which 

 science can derive from a combination of brain work with 

 manual work. 



IN olden times men of science, and especially 

 those who have done most to forward 

 the growth of natural philosophy, did not 

 despise manual work and handicraft. Galileo 

 made his telescopes with his own hands. Newton 

 learned in his boyhood the art of managing 

 tools ; he exercised his young mind in con- 

 triving most ingenious machines, and when he 

 began his researches in optics he was able 

 himself to grind the lenses for his instruments, 

 and himself to make the well-known telescope, 

 which, for its time, was a fine piece of work- 

 manship. Leibnitz was fond of inventing 

 machines : windmills and carriages to be 

 moved without horses preoccupied his mind 



