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no one has a chance of really understanding them, 

 unless he has obtained that mastery of principles and 

 that habit of dealing with facts, which is given by 

 long-continued and well-directed purely scientific 

 training in the physical and the chemical labora- 

 tory. So that there really is no question as to 

 the necessity of purely scientific discipline, even 

 if the work of the College were limited by the nar- 

 rowest interpretation of its stated aims. 



And, as to the desirableness of a wider culture 

 than that yielded by science alone, it is to be recol- 

 lected that the improvement of manufacturing 

 processes is only one of the conditions which con- 

 tribute to the prosperity of industry. Industry is 

 a means and not an end ; and mankind work only 

 to get something which they want. What that 

 something is depends partly on their innate, and 

 partly on their acquired, desires. 



If the wealth resulting from prosperous industry 

 is to be spent upon the gratification of unworthy 

 desires, if the increasing perfection of manufac- 

 turing processes is to be accompanied by an in- 

 creasing debasement of those who carry them on, I 

 do not see the good of industry and prosperity. 



Now it is perfectly true that men's views of 

 what is desirable depend upon their characters; 

 and that the innate proclivities to which we give 

 that name are not touched by any amount of 

 instruction. But it does not follow that even mere 

 intellectual education may not, to an indefinite 



