178 Opponents of original research. 



centres of the realm, physical and chemical labora- 

 tories such as that which the Duke of Devonshire has 

 established at Cambridge, provided with the most 

 refined apparatus, and accessible to all who are con- 

 sidered privileged by a competent tribunal." He also 

 says "when there is found a man so far surpassing his 

 fellows in any department of science that he may be 

 expected to do work beyond their power, he ought to 

 be made independent of any other pursuit, so that 

 none of his time and energy may be lost, such a case 

 is exceptional, and when it occurs it should be excep- 

 tionally provided for." 



Original research will for a long time to come, be 

 opposed by a large section of the non-scientific 

 public : by the numerous persons whose source of 

 income depends upon the ignorance of their fellow- 

 men : by those who are deficient of faith in demon- 

 strable truth, and fear that their most cherished 

 beliefs are endangered by it : and by many of those 

 who are insufficiently acquainted with it to perceive 

 its great value to mankind. 



With regard to the fears of many objectors that the 

 Endowment of Research would lead to jobbery and 

 abuses, and thus retard the progress of discovery 

 instead of promoting it ; it is evident that such a risk 

 is an inseparable concomitant of every remunerated 

 office and is not peculiar to that of research, and must 

 therefore be accepted as unavoidable and be provided 

 against in the usual ways. It does not however appear 

 probable that the risk in this respect is at all greater 



