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There are already a few members of the House 

 of Commons who are fully alive to its significance 

 and importance. 



We may have to wait for the expenditure of such 

 a sum as I have named, and possibly it may be derived 

 ultimately from local rather than imperial sources, 

 though I do not see why it should be ; yet I think it 

 is a good thing to' realise now that this is what we 

 ought to expend in order to be on a level with Germany. 

 This apparently extravagant and unheard-of appropri- 

 ation of public money is actually made every year in 

 Germany. 



I think it is well to put the matter before you in 

 this definite manner, because I have reason to believe 

 that even those whom we might expect to be well 

 informed in regard to such matters, are not so, and as 

 a consequence there is not that keen sense of the in- 

 feriority and inadequacy of English arrangements in 

 these matters which one would gladly see actuating 

 the conduct of English statesmen. For instance, only 

 a few years ago, when speaking at Nottingham, the 

 present Prime Minister, who has taken an active part 

 in rearranging our universities, and has, it is well 

 known, much interest in science and learning, stated 

 that 27,000, the capital sum expended on the Notting- 

 ham College of Science, was a very important contri- 

 bution to the support of learning in this country, 

 amounting, as he said he was able to state, from the 

 perusal of official documents, to as much as one-third 

 of what was spent in Germany. during the past year 

 upon her numerous universities, which were so often 



