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his daily work the delight of seeing beneath its grime and 

 dust a play of stupendous forces within majestic laws. 



Of all the men whom I have known, I could point to no one 

 who more completely than George Livesey embodied the 

 finest native strength of the English industrialist. He was one 

 of those men to whom I referred at the beginning of this 

 address, who was bound to succeed independently of all that 

 we call formal education. But you know that he never 

 breathed any such vulgar boast. On the contrary, he believed 

 with all his heart in the worth of all things intellectual. He 

 was eager to draw to his aid all the resources of modern 

 science; he took the broadest, most sympathetic, view of 

 scientific research ; and I can, as I have said before, imagine 

 no memorial more acceptable to him than the one which to 

 our great honour you have set up in this university. 1 In the 

 inspiring address which he delivered to you from this chair 

 three years ago, he lifted your thoughts to the ethical side of 

 industrial life, and preached to you the chivalry which you 

 know he had practised in his life. Honest dealing, confidence 

 between man and man, care for the workman, national before 

 personal interests in short, a large-hearted humanity these 

 were his topics as they were his qualities. I am not without 

 hope that in the universities old and new, where knowledge 

 should be cultivated, whatever it may pertain to, in the 

 worship of truth, where young men should see visions, we 

 may help to maintain the fine flower of British industry, of 

 which George Livesey was so splendid an example. 



1 The Livesey Professorship of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries. 



