50 SCIENCE 



all "some knowledge of the relation of the 

 sciences to one another and a just conception 

 of the means by which they advance/' For 

 the limited class an exact knowledge of the 

 elements is essential. If this exact knowledge 

 is required from all, the majority find the 

 process dull, they get no further than the 

 elements, and when the dreaded examination 

 is over they forget even these and have no 

 further interest in the subject. Natural 

 Science, like Latin and Greek, disappears from 

 their lives. 



And so, if this be at all the correct view, an 

 important task for the University is to 

 develop a new method for the ordinary teach- 

 ing of Science, not merely to require that 

 Science should be taught but to discuss and 

 determine how this can best be done, and 

 then to train and send out into the world men 

 capable of doing it. The method will not 



