SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 



pupils should have the use of a small astronomical tele- 

 scope, and of microscopes for biological work. Such 

 apparatus and instruments can now be purchased at a 

 very small cost. 



Clearly, it is only by such a widening of the general 

 education common to all who go up to the Universities, 

 before specialisation is allowed, that the present " gap 

 between scientific students careless of literary form, and 

 classical students ignorant of scientific method," can be 

 filled up, and the young men who will in the future take an 

 active part in public affairs, as statesmen and leaders of 

 thought, can be suitably prepared to introduce and en- 

 courage in the country that fuller knowledge and apprecia- 

 tion of science which are needed for the complete change 

 of the national attitude on all science questions, which is 

 absolutely necessary if we are to maintain our high position 

 and fulfil our destiny as a great nation. 



[I do not surely exaggerate the importance to the nation 

 of the existence of the Royal Society, if I claim for it to 

 have been, during the last two centuries, the faithful 

 guardian of the true Palladium of the Empire, too long 

 neglected and even forgotten by its peoples. 



Sciencia vinces, whether it be on the field of battle, 

 on the waves of the ocean, amid the din and smoke of the 

 workshop, or on the broad acres under the light of heaven ; 

 and assuredly, in the future, even more than in the past, not 

 only the prosperity, but even the existence of the Empire 



will be found to depend upon the " improvement of Natural 



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