eee 
&T. 76.] SPEECH AT MANCHESTER. 809 
becoming from one whose chemistry nearly ended as 
well as began with the simple atomic theory of Dalton. 
But there is one topie which I may properly speak of, 
standing as I do as a representative of those favored 
individuals which your programme, for lack of a better 
distinguishing word, calls ‘ foreigners.’ I refer to the 
urgently expressed ‘hope that this meeting may be 
the commencement of an international scientific organ- 
ization.’ For this we thank you, Mr. President, most 
heartily. This is, indeed, a consummation devoutly to 
be wished, and confidently to be hoped for by all of 
us, especially by those for whom I am speaking. 
nly we Americans, who are of British de- 
scent, and who never forget that blood is thicker than 
water, but as well our Continental associates on this 
platform, of the various strains of blood which, inter- 
fused, have produced this English race and fitted it 
for its noble issues, —we, each and all, I repeat, accept 
this name of ‘foreigners’ only in the conventional 
sense which the imperfection of the language imposes. 
In the forum of science we ignore it altogether. One 
purpose unifies and animates every scientific mind 
with ‘one divine intent,’ and that by no means the 
‘far-off intent’ of which the poet sings, but one very 
near and pervading. So we took to heart the closing 
words of your president’s most pertinent and timely 
address. Indeed, we had taken them to heart in 
anticipation, and so have come to this meeting, one 
hundred strong or more (in place of the ordinary 
score) fully bent upon making this Manchester meet- 
ing international. 
“ Far back in my youthful days there was a strong- 
willed President of the United States, of military 
antecedents, who once drew up and promulgated an 
