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from the world, just as Iam aware of the dangers which beset any 
- __ individual or institution that becomes embroiled in the strenuous 
life of our feverish Western nations at the present day. But 
I do not think that any thoughtful person who has spent his 
years, say, in the North of England, can have failed to dis- 
cover and deplore the great lack of sympathy and good 
understanding between the educational and industrial com- 
: munities, and to seek for the cause of this estrangement. I can 
only give my own explanation. I do not believe that the 
cause lies in the turpitude of the industrial world. I have no 
sympathy with those people who can see in the industrial life 
nothing but a sordid struggle for worldly success and wealth. It 
isa distorted and an unfair view. The amassing of money is no 
doubt an inevitable incident and the readiest measure of 
success in industry. Truly enough, it is a consuming purpose 
with multitudes who are under the stress of hard necessity. 
But exactly the same is true of the learned professions. There 
may be more sordid souls among the leaders of industry than 
in the professional world—I express no opinion—but as well 
in industry as there, the achievement, and, to all right minds, 
the glory of success, come from the conquest of difficulties ; it 
is this same zest to do right things well, and it is not cupidity, 
which is the sustaining force of our manufacturing world. 
Such at least has been my observation. 
The fault, I believe, has lain rather with the educational 
world. It should have led, where it has tardily followed. If 
educational institutions are to preserve their influence on the 
people, they must alter their ways with the progress of civiliza- 
tion, in some measure, as the people alter theirs ; they must be 
ever alert not to get detached. But how difficult it is!) At one. 
time mankind inaugurates a system well adapted, it may be, 
to the conditions of the time. The system becomes dear to 
its generation ; people who have profited from it proclaim its 
excellence, recommend and enforce its claims upon their con- 
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