34 Science abbreviates labour. 



such that in a very few years a knowledge of it will 

 be indispensible to all persons engaged in superin- 

 tending or carrying out manufacturing operations > 

 and in all arts, occupations and appointments in 

 which man is dealing with matter. Science is fast 

 penetrating into all our manufactures and occupa- 

 tions, and "those who are unscientific will have 

 much less employment and will be left behind in the 

 race of life." England also will be compelled, by 

 the necessities of human progress and the advance 

 of foreign intellect, to determine and recognize the 

 proper value of scientific research as a basis of 

 progress. National superiority can only be main- 

 tained by being first in the race, and not by buying 

 inventions of other nations. 



The philosophy of matter is the foundation of all 

 manufacturing arts and artistic processes ; technical 

 education, or the relation of science to manu- 

 factures, &c., can only be properly imparted upon 

 the basis of a sufficient knowledge of theoretical 

 science. Science tends to abbreviate mental and 

 bodily labour. The use of our reason saves us the 

 labour of using our senses, because it enables us to 

 know that under certain conditions a certain effect 

 must occur. The use of our reason and senses also 

 saves us using our hands. 



The properties of a single substance are so 

 numerous that if a workman was to thoroughly 

 study the whole of them, he would become a scien- 

 tific authority in the subjects of heat, light, electricity 



