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is contained in Herbert Spencer’s well-known book on ‘ Edu- 
cation’, and if you wish to know what science has done and 
what it may be, how it stands in relation to things intellectual, 
to things moral, to what in brief we may call culture, you 
will naturally betake yourself to the writings of Huxley. 
Other names might be mentioned ; Tyndall, the friend and 
colleague of Huxley, was a champion in the fight for science, 
and many minor names may be added to these major ones. 
The fruits of this campaign are abundantly evident to-day. 
Science in many respects has won its place and acquired its 
workers. We find ourselves continually being enriched by 
the fruits of scientific discovery applied to the practical con- 
veniences of life. We expect regularly gifts from science 
such as those which produce wireless telegraphy, X-rays, 
radium, and so forth. And again, we can see the fruits of the 
campaign to which I have alluded in the change of thought 
both in philosophy and in theology. And thirdly, we can 
see the fruits of the scientific campaign in the evolution of 
educational institutions, among which I would quote the 
example already cited by our Chairman, the establishment 
of what are called the modern. universities in the various 
industrial centres of England. Notwithstanding all this potent 
evidence, I believe the cause of science needs continual re- 
stating, because no one who looks into the circumstances 
can fail to admit that science teaching as an element of 
general education is still very greatly neglected, and because 
amidst the clamour for the introduction of science, and amidst 
the multitude of counsellors, there is a considerable amount 
of confusion, and the public gains a wrong notion as to the 
incidence of science both in education and in the life of the 
nation. Further than this, it is being stated to-day that the 
claims which were so enthusiastically put forward for science 
in the nineteenth century have not been substantiated ; that 
science arrogated to herself at that time the power to explain 
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