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is more likely to leave one of its followers time and 

 means for scientific research than is that of either the 

 popular writer or the successful teacher. 



We have, then, seen that there is no escape from 

 the necessity of providing stipends and laboratories 

 for the purpose of creating new knowledge, as is done 

 in Continental States, if we are agreed that more of 

 this new knowledge is needed and is among the 

 products which a civilised community is bound to 

 turn out, both for its own benefit and for that of 

 the community of States, which give to and take from 

 one another in such matters. 



There are some who would finally attack our 

 contention by denying that new knowledge is a good 

 thing, and by refusing to recognise any obligation on 

 the part of England to contribute her share to that 

 common stock of increasing knowledge by which she 

 necessarily profits. Among such persons are those 

 who would prohibit altogether the pursuit of experi- 

 mental physiology in England, and yet would not and 

 do not hesitate to avail themselves of the services 

 of medical men, whose power of rendering those 

 services depends on the fact that they have learnt the 

 results obtained by the experiments of physiologists 

 in other countries or in former times. In reference to 

 this strange contempt and even hatred of science, 

 which undoubtedly has an existence among some 

 persons of consideration, even at the present day, 

 I shall have a few words to say before concluding 

 this address. I have now to ask you to listen to 

 what seems to me to be the demand which we should 



