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inventors, to whom indeed all due honour be paid; but we 
are apt to forget that these men could never have been, had 
there not preceded them some dreamer of dreams, some one 
who cared for none of these things, some one who was more 
of a poet than a practical man, a Faraday working in a cellar 
with bits of wire and a compass needle, intent upon nothing 
but deciphering some page in the great book of Nature. It is 
only the ignorant, and among these many who pass for the 
most learned, and are so in their narrow way—it is only the 
ignorant, who think that science is harsh, malodorous, mundane, 
and unimaginative, and that we who follow it have strayed to 
the worship of the golden calf. We cannot stock our 
university with Faradays, nor should we wish to, but the 
teaching of ‘science there, be it but the science of making 
soap—if it is to be worth anything, even for a sordid end—must 
be imbued with a high intellectual spirit and informed by 
a disinterested love of truth. 
And there is another thing to be remembered. Set your 
mind, if you will, upon teaching a useful science ; you cannot 
do it usefully without teaching the related realms of knowledge. 
Begin with chemistry, and you must have physics; you 
cannot have physics, but you must have mathematics. Nor 
must science be inarticulate, nor yet insular; the cultivation 
of languages must accompany it. And then your students 
have to be taught before you get them, you have their teachers 
to train in all the liberal studies, and so arise literature, history, 
: _ philosophy. Your hospitals beget a school of medicine and 
your courts a school of law. You cannot avoid becoming 
broad, if you but do what is plainly asked of you. 
I have no fear whatever of our becoming narrow in our 
range of studies. In some thirty years we have passed from 
the Yorkshire College of Science, with four professors, to the 
University of Leeds, with thirty-two—not because of any 
sudden revolution, but from the natural growth of an institution 
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