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tasks of all boys. It must train men to be 

 leaders in all walks of life, and not least in 

 industrial pursuits, and this not by under- 

 taking the technical training of the men who 

 go out hence into the world but by laying a 

 broad foundation of the scientific principles 

 and laws on which technical knowledge, be it 

 of theology, medicine, or law, or of the more 

 modern branches of applied science, must rest. 

 And lastly, but most important of all, it must 

 produce the leaders in every branch of science. 

 To develop the steps by which all this is done 

 is a task far beyond me ; I do not propose to 

 attempt it. 



For the highest work of all, be it literary 

 or scientific, the course is fairly simple. Men 

 in whom are implanted the thirst for new 

 knowledge, the power of discovery, the keen 

 logical insight to follow the right path and 

 avoid the wrong, will come to the front helped 



