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tion of our own achievements ; too confident 

 of the sufficiency of our limited knowledge; 

 too contemptuous of the few who tried to 

 throw the light of science on our path; too 

 eager for wealth, and the social influence it 

 could buy in the new state of society; too 

 careless of the needs and aspirations of the 

 ' hands ' who helped to make the rapid accu- 

 mulation of large fortunes possible. 



And what has been the consequence ? For 

 every lapse from the ideal, and there is an ideal 

 even of industrial polity, Nemesis Adrasteia, 

 sooner or later, exacts retribution/' 



The lesson has now been learnt with more 

 or less completeness, and to-day each modern 

 engineering works possesses its own laboratory 

 and utilises the teaching of science at each 

 stage of its processes. Cambridge can supply 

 the men who will do this work. To this 

 question I hope to return later. 



