i6 SCIENCE 



remember this, and strive here in the first 

 place for the advancement of Pure Science. 



Scientific investigations we may divide 

 into two classes. Those in pure science 

 which are directed solely to the advancement 

 of natural knowledge, the discovery of 

 Nature's laws ; and those which have for their 

 aim the application of these discoveries to 

 the processes of our everyday life in art, or 

 commerce, or manufacture. There is no need 

 to lay stress in this room on the paramount 

 importance of the first class. The Cavendish 

 Professor, speaking recently in London, said 

 truly "the discoveries in applied science may 

 produce a reformation, those in pure science 

 lead to revolutions." 



The book Science and the Nation, to which 

 I have already referred, written, according to 

 the preface of the Master of Downing, to 

 enable the reader to grasp in its true perspec- 



