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boxes ; that if you starve the roots your crop of 

 fruit will not be forthcoming. 



There ought, of course, to be no competition 

 at all, but the closest co-operation, between pure 

 and applied science. Unfortunately, however, com- 

 petition is hardly to be avoided so long as those in 

 authority value results only in so far as they can 

 be shown to be immediately applicable to the 

 material welfare of the nation ; and it is just this 

 danger of a competition in which market value 

 would always decide the issue which makes it 

 perhaps questionable whether pure and applied 

 science can both attain their fullest development 

 in the same institution. On the other hand, the 

 danger attending the practice of lopping off branches 

 from the tree of knowledge as soon as they begin 

 to bear fruit, and subjecting them to intensive 

 cultivation under conditions of comparative isola- 

 tion, is no less threatening at the present time. 



ARTHUR DENDY 



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