INTRODUCTION I I 



convince their students that the goal will never 

 be reached except by thorough and honest work ; 

 and surely any student will work all the more 

 cheerfully if he know that college work is arm- 

 ing him with ammunition for subsequent use, and 

 is useful not only as an intellectual treadmill. 



The fear that academic science will be 

 neglected if technical science be used for educa- 

 tional work, seems to me somewhat exaggerated. 

 The revival of classics since the loss of its 

 educational monoply is a valuable lesson. 

 Academic science is even less likely to be 

 neglected : it will always have its attractions 

 for intellectual hermits, who prefer to work on 

 subjects where they will not be worried by the 

 practical man of the world ; and it will always 

 have its appeal to the fancy with its true fairy 

 tales. As applied science must always be 

 dependent on theoretical science, the greater 

 the prosperity of applied science, the more 

 urgent will be its demands on pure science for 

 further information, and the more generously 

 the world will be prepared to pay for pure 

 scientific research. The victory of science in 

 the last century has not led to the predicted 

 overthrow of culture. Instead of its having 

 been fatal to the study of classics, it has inspired 

 a period of unrivalled brilliancy in classical 

 research. So far from its having destroyed all 

 respect for past history, and led to the neglect 

 of books of authority, it has caused the re- 

 writing of history on more instructive lines, and 



