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a vulgar materialism. " Truer relations of science 

 to industry are implied in Greek mythology. Vul- 

 can, the god of industry, wooed science, in the form 

 of Minerva, with a passionate love, but the chaste 

 goddess never married, although she conferred upon 

 mankind nearly as many arts as Prometheus, who, 

 like other inventors, saw civilisation progressing by 

 their use while he lay groaning in want on Mount 

 Caucasus." * 



* Sir Lyon Playfair, Pres. Address, Rep. Brit. Ass., 1885, 

 p. 17. 



