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volunteers for facts and partial exploration, and 

 thousands of explorers would have answered his 

 appeal. Scores of societies would have come 

 to life to debate and to solve each of the partial 

 problems involved in the theory, and in ten 

 years the theory would have been verified ; 

 all those factors of evolution which only now 

 begin to receive due attention would have 

 appeared in their full light. The rate of scien- 

 tific progress would have been tenfold ; and if 

 the individual would not have the same claims 

 on posterity's gratitude as he has now, the 

 unknown mass would have done the work with 

 more speed and with more prospect for ulterior 

 advance than the individual could do in his 

 lifetime. Mr. Murray's dictionary is an illustra- 

 tion of that kind of work the work of the future. 

 However, there is another feature of modern 

 science which speaks more strongly yet in 

 favour of the change we advocate. While 

 industry, especially by the end of the last 

 century and during the first part of the present, 

 has been inventing on such a scale as to re- 

 volutionise the very face of the earth, science has 

 been losing its inventive powers. Men of science 

 invent no more, or very little. Is it not strik- 

 ing, indeed, that the steam-engine,, even in its 

 leading principles, the railway-engine, the steam- 

 boat, the telephone, the phonograph, the weav- 



