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apparatus has now become a monstrous 

 growth, a malignant disease of the educational 

 system/' Or again, in more moderate words, 

 "When we come to consider such provision 

 as there is for science in general education, as 

 represented by the opportunities actually 

 offered to boys and girls at school, it is for me 

 impossible to avoid the conclusion that what 

 the exponents of physical science have evolved 

 as the elements of scientific education is quite 

 unworthy of the subjects we desire to ex- 

 pound/' In the hopes that the error may be 

 retrieved I, like him, wish to express my re- 

 pentance for my share in it and appeal for a 

 reconsideration of the position to those whose 

 duty it is to determine the form in which a 

 general education in science is in future to 

 take. It is clear, I think, that a plan which 

 is excellent for men who intend to specialise 

 in science is not the one best suited to give to 



