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PROFESSORS AND PRACTICAL MEN. 3y 
his daily work the delight of seeing .beneath its grime and 
dust a play of stupendous forces within majestic laws. 
Of all the men whom I have known, I could point to no one 
who more completely than George Livesey embodied the 
finest native strength of the English industrialist. He was one 
of those men to whom I referred at the béginning of this 
address, who was bound to succeed independently of all that 
we call formal education. But you know that he never 
breathed any such vulgar boast. On the contrary, he believed 
with all his heart in the worth of all things intellectual. He 
was eager to draw to his aid all the resources of modern 
science; he took the broadest, most sympathetic, view of 
scientific research ; and I can, as I have said before, imagine 
no memorial more acceptable to him than the one which to 
our great honour you have set up in this university.1 In the 
inspiring address which he delivered to you from this chair 
three years ago, he lifted your thoughts to the ethical side of 
industrial life, and preached to you the chivalry which you 
know he had practised in his life. Honest dealing, confidence 
between man and man, care for the workman, national before 
personal interests—in short, a large-hearted humanity—these 
were his topics as they were his qualities. I am not without 
hope that in the universities old and new, where knowledge 
should be cultivated, whatever it may pertain to, in the 
worship of truth, where young men should see visions, we 
may help to maintain the fine flower of British industry, of 
_ which George Livesey was so splendid an example. 
1 The Livesey Professorship of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries. 
