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that the world should realise that the highest 

 object of this command of matter is to use 

 it for spiritual ends. The great Cambridge 

 physicists who have left us within the memory 

 of many here present Adams and Cayley, 

 Stokes, Maxwell, and Kelvin realised this; 

 the desire to discover the truth, to advance 

 knowledge for its own sake, lay at the root of 

 their endeavours and was the cause of their 

 success. 



A distinction is often drawn nowadays be- 

 tween pure science and industrial science. I saw 

 somewhere recently a protest against the use of 

 the latter term. Science is one, and industrial 

 science so-called is the application of the 

 discoveries of pure science to the problems of 

 industry. Huxley wrote long ago: "What 

 people called Applied Science is nothing but 

 the application of Pure Science to particular 

 problems/' It is essential that we should 



