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responsibilities and add his opinion to the 

 common stock. 



What strikes one so forcibly in this matter 

 is the quiet patience with which our experts 

 plod along, ignoring the dead weight of ignor- 

 ance and apathy with which their work is 

 received. I ought of course to state that, 

 though I am speaking of those colleges with 

 which the Leaflet deals, I have in my mind 

 also those other similar institutions which 

 are outside its purview. In Agricultural 

 Research the pace is set, so to speak, by the 

 research students themselves. Dr. Russell, 

 Dr. Theobald, Dr. Golding, have no doubt 

 very clear ideas of the things they want to 

 know, and we may, the State may, leave them 

 to their work and listen with respect to 

 anything they may think to be of interest in 

 their discoveries. The man in the country 

 road has a very vague idea of the intensely 

 important questions the philosopher has to 

 investigate and if possible decide. And least 

 of all does he appreciate what endless labour 

 is undergone by every scientific searcher in 

 these inquiries which are sometimes fruitless. 



But with advisory work the case is differ- 



