SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND EDUCATION 



numbers, and then, as is already the case in the United 

 States, institutions for the teaching and advancement of 

 knowledge would be freely founded, and liberally endowed 

 by means of private benefactions. 



In the meanwhile, much may be done provisionally by 

 our Fellows, in their individual capacity, by stimulating 

 and directing wisely the increased attention which is now 

 being given to science in all departments of life, and 

 especially in fostering and extending the many Technical 

 Colleges and Institutions which are being established in all 

 parts of the country. 



[A primary and immediate need of this country is the 

 putting of more science into the Education of the country. 

 Not the teaching of the mere facts of science, which by 

 itself is of little good, but the training of the intellect by 

 strict scientific methods and principles. 



In the coming century the race will not be to the 

 country of the athlete, nor to the country of the classicist, 

 but to the country whose men, having been trained under 

 the rigorous methods of science, have the knowledge, and 

 especially the alertness of mind, to enrich themselves out 

 of the open and inexhaustible treasury of Nature.] 



The Fellows will view with no little satisfaction the fact 

 that the King has been pleased to recognise the import- 

 ance of science being represented on the highest judicial 

 body in the kingdom, by the appointment of two of our 

 Fellows as Privy Councillors. When we consider that at 



the present time there are few important matters which 



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