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any particular branch of industry may not 

 appear to be of appreciable benefit, yet 

 when interpreted by the industrial scien- 

 tist, with whom I class the engineer and the 

 industrial chemist, and when adapted to 

 practical uses by them, the contributions 

 of pure science as a whole become of incal- 

 culable value to all the industries. 



I do not say this because a new incentive 

 is necessary for the pure scientist, for in 

 him there must be some of the divine spark 

 and for him there is no higher motive than 

 the search for the truth itself. But surely 

 this motive must be intensified by the 

 knowledge that when the search is re- 

 warded there is sure to be found, sooner or 

 later, in the truth which has been discov- 

 ered, the seeds of future great inventions 

 which will increase the comfort and con- 

 venience and alleviate the sufferings of 

 mankind. 



By all who study the subject, it will be 

 found that while the discoveries of the pure 

 scientist are of the greatest importance to 

 the higher interests of mankind, their prac- 

 tical benefits, though certain, are usually 

 indirect, intangible or remote. Pure scien- 

 tific research unlike industrial scientific re- 

 search can not support itself by direct 

 pecuniary returns from its discoveries. 



The practical benefits which may be im- 

 mediately and directly traced to industrial 

 research, when it is properly conducted, are 

 so great that when their importance is 

 more generally recognized industrial re- 

 search will not lack the most generous en- 

 couragement and support. Indeed, unless 

 industrial research abundantly supports 

 itself it will have failed of its purpose. 



