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of chemistry. In order to improve them, one must thor- 

 oughly understand them ; and no one has a chance o'i 

 really understanding them, unless he has obtained that 

 mastery of principles and that habit of dealing with 

 facts, which is given by long-continued and well-directed 

 purely scientific training in the physical and the chemi- 

 cal laboratory. So that there really is no question as to 

 the necessity of purely scientific discipline, even if the 

 work of the College were limited by the narrowest in- 

 terpretation of its stated aims. 



And, as to the desirableness of a wider culture than 

 that yielded by science alone, it is to be recollected that 

 the improvement of manufacturing processes is only one 

 of the conditions which contribute to the prosperity of 

 industry. Industry is a means and not an end; and 

 mankind work only to get something which they want. 

 ^5Vhat that something is depends partly on their innate, 

 and partly on their acquired, desires. 



If the wealth resulting from prosperous industry is 

 to be spent upon the gratification of unworthy desires, if 

 the increasing perfection of manufacturing processes is 

 to be accompanied by an increasing debasement of those 

 who carry them on, I do not see the good of industry 

 and prosperity. 



"Now it is perfectly true that men's views of what 

 is desirable depend upon their characters ; and that the 

 innate proclivities to which we give that name are not 

 touched by any amount of instruction. But it does not 

 follow that even mere intellectual education may not, to 



