106 GERMAN SCIENCE 
fructify in a host of minor discoveries and in countless practical 
applications. k 
We have only to think of Dalton, Young, Davy, Faraday, 
Joule, Kelvin, Stokes, Darwin, Lyell, Clerk-Maxwell, and 
Huggins among the giants of the nineteenth century to realize 
the truth of what I say. And it would be easy to make up a 
list of those who are with us now that would match the best 
names of any other country. 
In one branch certainly, in physics, we are not only eminent, 
we are supreme. Radium, it is true, was discovered by 
a Polish lady in a French laboratory, but the revolutionary 
science that has arisen from it, the ideas that have thrown an 
entirely new and unexpected light on natural phenomena and 
have opened up a new chapter of science will always be 
associated primarily with the names of an Englishman, Sir 
Joseph Thomson of Cambridge, and of a son of Greater 
Britain—a New Zealander, Sir Ernest Rutherford of Man- 
chester. I am proud to add that in the event of the hour our 
Professor Bragg stands in the very. forefront. 
It is in followers that we are lacking. Ifa man has it in 
him to become.a great investigator—if he has in him the subtle 
spirit of real genius, he will, we believe, realize himself in the 
face of most formidable obstacles. He will be there ready to 
lead and inspire. But if the conditions of the time, the temper 
of thought, and the influence of the State are detached from him, 
what is he likely to remain but a prophet crying in the wilder- 
ness? This has been the plight of most of our English 
scientific leaders. 
I now wish to say something about German science in 
relation to industries. Here again I shall be compelled by 
the limits of my knowledge and experience to confine myself 
to chemistry, but here again I have to be thankful that 
chemical science is the one which is most widely applicable to 
manufacturing processes. 
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