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from the world, just as I am aware of the dangers which beset any 

 individual or institution that becomes embroiled in the strenuous 

 life of our feverish Western nations at the present day. But 

 I do not think that any thoughtful person who has spent his 

 years, say, in the North of England, can have failed to dis- 

 cover and deplore the great lack of sympathy and good 

 understanding between the educational and industrial com- 

 munities, and to seek for the cause of this estrangement. I can 

 only give my own explanation. I do not believe that the 

 cause lies in the turpitude of the industrial world. I have no 

 sympathy with those people who can see in the industrial life 

 nothing but a sordid struggle for worldly success and wealth. It 

 is a distorted and an unfair view. The amassing of money is no 

 doubt an inevitable incident and the readiest measure of 

 success in industry. Truly enough, it is a consuming purpose 

 with multitudes who are under the stress of hard necessity. 

 But exactly the same is true of the learned professions. There 

 may be more sordid souls among the leaders of industry than 

 in the professional world I express no opinion but as well 

 in industry as there, the achievement, and, to all right minds, 

 the glory of success, come from the conquest of difficulties ; it 

 is this same zest to do right things well, and it is not cupidity, 

 which is the sustaining force of our manufacturing world. 

 Such at least has been my observation. 



The fault, I believe, has lain rather with the educational 

 world. It should have led, where it has tardily followed. If 

 educational institutions are to preserve their influence on the 

 people, they must alter their ways with the progress of civiliza- 

 tion, in some measure, as the people alter theirs ; they must be 

 ever alert not to get detached. But how difficult it is ! At one 

 time mankind inaugurates a system well adapted, it may be, 

 to the conditions of the time. The system becomes dear to 

 its generation ; people who have profited from it proclaim its 

 excellence, recommend and enforce its claims upon their con- 



