IV. ON THE PROFOUND INFLUENCE 

 WHICH SCIENCE, REPRESENTED 

 BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY, HAS HAD 

 UPON THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF 

 THE WORLD; AND THE PLACE OF 

 SCIENCE IN GENERAL EDUCATION. 



"Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times." ISAIAH 

 xxxiii. 6. 



"What is put into the schools of a country comes out subsequently in 

 the manhood of the nation." STEIN. 



From the Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting 

 on November 30, 1905. 



AT the last anniversary I occupied a few minutes 

 in bringing to your remembrance some of the 

 more important occasions on which the Society in 

 the past had initiated, supported, or given advice about 

 scientific questions in connection with the State ; and, at 

 the same time, I called attention to the large number of 

 responsible public duties which to-day rest permanently 

 upon it, and by which, either through departments of the 

 State or through other public bodies, the Society makes 

 its influence felt strongly for the good of the country. 



To-day I wish to speak of the profound influence which 



the discoveries of science, in great part the work of Fellows 



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