60 SECTIONAL ADDRESSES. 



Perhaps the most pressing need of the present day lies in the 

 cultivation of a better understanding between our great masters of 

 productive industry, the shareholders to whom they are in the first 

 degree responsible, and our scientific workers ; if, by reason of any 

 turbidity of vision, our large manufacturing corporations fail to discern 

 that, in their own interest, the financial support of purely scientific 

 research should be one of their first cares, technical advance will slacken 

 and other nations, adopting a more far-sighted policy, will forge ahead 

 in science and technology. It should, I venture to think, be the 

 bounden duty of everyone who has at heart the aims and objects of 

 the British Association to preach the doctrine that in closer sympathy 

 between all classes of productive labour, manual and intellectual, lies 

 our only hope for the future. I cannot do better than conclude by 

 quoting the words of Pope, one of our most characteristically British 

 poets : 



' By mutual confidence and mutual aid 

 Great deeds are done and great discoveries made.' 



