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»xist together any more than the eagle and the squid can 
share the same apartment. Science has at this moment 
the most magnificient opportunity that has ever enjoyed of 
seizing the steersmanship of human destiny. Every man 
who wants to see his country great, progressive and pros- 
perous, marching as a standard-bearer at the head of the 
advancing legions of mankind, should back the scientist with 
every ounce of energy that he possesses. If otherwise, he 
wishes to see her mean, petty, retrogressive, squalid and 
contemptible, let him support a return to our debasing party 
strifes, with their concomitant triumph of the political 
schemer and all the host of parasites whom he enriches out 
of public money.” 
And as indicating the increased respect with which 
science ought to be treated a short quotation from NA- 
TURE is also apropos: 
“IT wonder whether other readers of Nature besides 
myself caught the interference fringes from three facets of 
this glittering subject in the issue of December? The first 
was the Royal Society’s advertisement for applications for 
grants for scientific investigations from the government 
fund; the second, the editorial contrast between the rates 
of pay for legal and for scientific services; and the third, 
the anniversary address of the president of the Royal So- 
ciety, containing the suggestion that science does not take 
its place in the national organization because the general 
public looks upon scientific investigations as a hobby. 
What else can the general public do while men of 
science, in dealing with one another, generally act upon the 
principle that scientific investigation is is a hobby for which 
facilities are required, not payment? The demonstration 
afforded by the Government Grant Committee and the Com- 
mittee of Recommendations of the British Association is 
conclusive. The normal practise is for these committees to 
be asked to supply a portion—rarely the whole—of the ex- 
penses of some scientific investigation. The applicants in 
reply to the advertisement will think it meritorious to offer 
their brains and the time required to use them without ask- 
ing for any payment. That is the true criterion of a hobby. 
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