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encouragement which such belief gives, many investiga- 

 tors would fall by the wayside. But no man of science 

 who has put his hand to the plough of research ever 

 turns back. He knows that he is at work in a broad 

 field and that not only will he be judged by the straight- 

 ness of his furrows, but also that he is preparing a tilth 

 for a seedtime and harvest of knowledge of which the 

 chief benefit will be to others. He does not measure 

 his task by his wage, but performs it faithfully because 

 of its worthiness and his interest in it. 



If I may speak of the objects I have had more or less definitely 

 in view, they are briefly these : To promote the increase of 

 natural knowledge and to forward the application of scientific 

 methods to all the problems of life, to the best of my ability, in 

 the conviction, which has grown up with my growth, and 

 strengthened with my strength, that there is no alleviation of the 

 sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, 

 and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of 

 make-believe with which pious hands have hidden its uglier 

 features has been stripped off. Huxley. 



A subject which will promote the development of 

 such noble ambitions as these should be included in the 

 education of every civilised being ; yet science is still 

 the Cinderella in the house of education. 



I do think that the study of natural science is so glorious a 

 school for the mind that, with the laws impressed on all created 

 things by the Creator, and the wonderful unity and stability of 

 matter and the forces of matter, there cannot be a better school 

 for the education of the mind. Faraday. 



The study of Nature is elevating, and its material 

 value is of the highest, yet it is deplorably neglected,with 

 the result that only very rarely is the simplest scientific 

 subject referred to accurately in the works of literary 

 men. Our guides and counsellors, not only in the 

 periodical press, but also in less ephemeral publications, 



