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that, in view of the relation of Physical Science 

 to the practical life of the present day, it has the 

 same right as Theology, Law, and Medicine, to a 

 Faculty of its own in which men shall be trained 

 to be professional men of science. It may be 

 doubted whether Universities are the places for 

 technical schools of Engineering or applied Chem- 

 istry, or Agriculture. But there can surely be 

 little question, that instruction in the branches 

 of Science which lie at the foundation of these 

 Arts, of a far more advanced and special character 

 than could, with any propriety, be included in the 

 ordinary Arts Curriculum, ought to be obtainable 

 by means of a duly organised Faculty of Science in 

 every University. 



The establishment of such a Faculty would have 

 the additional advantage of providing, in some 

 measure, for one of the greatest wants of our time 

 and country. I mean the proper support and en- 

 couragement of original research. 



The other day, an emphatic friend of mine com- 

 mitted himself to the opinion that, in England, it 

 is better for a man's worldly prospects to be a 

 drunkard, than to be smitten with the divine dip- 

 somania of the original investigator. I am inclined 

 to think he was not far wrong. And, be it observed, 

 that the question is not, whether such a man shall 

 be able to make as much out of his abilities as his 

 brother, of like ability, who goes into Law, or 

 Engineering, or Commerce ; it is not a question of 



