38 PROFESSORS AND PRACTICAL MEN 
Englishman to learn. His very straightforwardness and stern 
common sense, and his businesslike ways, may all conspire to 
make him unbusinesslike in matters of education and research, 
to which, believe me, a man must serve a long apprenticeship 
before he becomes a master craftsman. I will listen eagerly 
to a business man while he tells me what he wants; I will 
eagerly seek the real knowledge that he has to give; I will 
eagerly lean upon him in the manifold business of administra- 
tion; I will eagerly take his money. But when he wants to 
tell me that I shall teach this and not teach that; that this is 
useful, the other useless ; above all, when he talks as if a well- 
constituted university should give proficiency in the practice 
of trades and render apprenticeship superfluous—well, I do not 
listen to him very patiently, and I say to myself, ‘ Alas that 
this man should think himself practical!’ 
If we on our side come to take a more sympathetic and 
direct part in bringing science to your service, I plead that 
you on yours shall show a larger measure of faith, of hope, 
and, I might almost say, of charity. Do not try to constrain us 
in our own proper business; do not be impatient of returns. 
They are sure to come—history has abundantly proved it; 
but you must freely cast your bread upon the waters. 
I have chosen in this address to take what may be called 
a materialistic view of education, and I am not ashamed. I 
do not forget that education has many purposes to serve, and 
that man does not live by bread alone. But without bread 
man becomes a shadowy or a rebellious being ; an ascetic or 
an anarchist. He must have bread, and he must get it by the 
sweat of his brow.. Englishmen collectively must have work ; 
the nation must have industries; and I take it as no degrada- 
tion of education to contrive that it shall minister directly. 
to their preservation, their progress, and their prosperity. 
Rather would I say this—that thereby you dignify labour, 
refresh the toiler with the fruits of knowledge, and infuse into 
