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tion of your teachers, give them facilities for introducing 
a really humane and human scientific teaching, which at 
present, I am bound to say, I do not think exists. I have 
no desire to be censorious. I know that science is still new 
in this country. But I cannot help thinking that a great 
deal of the science that is being taught at the present time 
is of a kind which will not produce the specialist and yet 
will not imbue the person who receives it with the real notion 
of what the relation of science is to national life. The thing 
that I believe most essential for you—I do not wish to make 
it too personal, because it is also true of our own country 
to a large extent, but it is perhaps more urgently true here 
—is to disseminate the notion of what the potentialities of 
science really are. 
There is much else connected with science that I should 
have liked to talk about. There is a philosophical side, and 
there is the ethical side of science. There is still a tendency 
to look upon science as a subject that has its dangers. It 
is apt to be regarded as what we call a bread-and-butter 
study, a study that lays too much stress upon the material 
aims of life; one that by its discipline damages the capacity 
of a human being for appreciating the value of some of the 
things that are best and highest in life. I have no time to 
enter upon a defence of science in this respect. I can do no 
better than once again refer you to the life of Pasteur. No 
book that I know of will give you a better idea of what 
science, properly regarded, is in relation to things, not only 
material, but to things philosophical and things spiritual, 
and | think if you read that book you will see that science 
properly regarded may be acquitted of the charges that are 
so often laid at its door. I have given you a very imperfect 
plea for science, and a very imperfect account of its true 
relation to national life. I do ardently believe in science, 
_ and I need hardly say I do ardently believe in the necessity 
