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who, in times of persecution and in the midst of a con- 

 temptuous society, have, with an ardour proportioned 

 to the prevailing neglect, pursued some special line of 

 scientific inquiry, it is nevertheless true that in itself, 

 apart from special social conditions. Science must 

 develop in a community which honours and desires it 

 before all things, qualities and characteristics which 

 are the highest, the most human of human attributes. 

 These are, firstly, the fearless love and unflinching 

 acceptance of truth ; hopeful patience ; that true 

 humility which is content not to know what cannot 

 be known, yet labours and waits ; love of Nature, who 

 is not less, but more, worshipped by those who know 

 her best ; love of the human brotherhood for whom 

 and with whom the growth of Science is desired and 

 effected. 



No one can trace the limits of Science, nor the 

 possibilities of happiness both of mind and body 

 which it may bring in the future to mankind. Bound- 

 less though the prospect is, yet the minutest contribu- 

 tion to the onward growth has its absolute and un- 

 assailable value ; once made it can never be lost ; its 

 effect is for ever in the history of man. 



Arts perish, and the noblest works which artists 

 give to the world. Art (though the source of great 

 and noble delights) cannot create nor perpetuate ; it 

 embodies only that which already exists in human 

 experience, whilst the results of its highest flights are 

 doomed to decay and sterility. A vain regret, a 

 constant effort to emulate or to imitate the past, is 

 the fitting and laudable characteristic of Art at the 



