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all that, there can be no doubt that a sympathetic appreciation of 

 his work is a most grateful and effectual stimulus to the scientific- 

 investigator, and in most cases beyond the pleasure that his labour' 

 itself brings, it is the only reward he can have or hope for. 



Now the amount of sympathy and appreciation that a scientific-, 

 investigator gets is in direct proportion to the number of his fellow 

 men who are capable of understanding his work, and whose tastes 

 are cultivated sufficiently to awaken in them an intelligent interest 

 in it. Here, then, we have another cogent argument in favour of 

 the importance of the diffusion of scientific knowledge among the 

 people. 



Then scientific investigation costs money. It demands, in the 

 first place, leisure on the part of the investigator. Then the appara- 

 tus required in exact researches is frequently most expensive, and is 

 every day becoming more so. The time has gone by when discove- 

 ries which revolutionize science can be made with a few glass bottles 

 and a pair of apothecary's scales. To do good work instruments of 

 the greatest refinement and delicacy are absolutely necessary, and 

 such instruments are not to be had for nothing. In many cases the 

 apparatus used for a particular research is of no further use when 

 that research is completed, and becomes of merely historic value. 

 Then there is publication, the cost of which we have already consid- 

 ered. Again, a philosopher is not born but made. True, nature 

 must do her part, but what would avail the genius of a Newton or of 

 a Lavoisier if — 



' ' Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 



Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unrol, 

 Chill penury repressed their noble rage, 

 And froze the genial current of their soul." 



The man who is to accomplish anything in science must have a scien- 

 tific training, and a scientific training means laboratories, lecture 

 rooms, apparatus, books and instructors, and here again the question, 

 of cost stares us in the face. 



Now, science is never self-supporting. The application of science 

 to the arts is often extremely profitable. The cultivation of pure 

 science is never so ; yet upon this cultivation of pure science all the 

 applications of science directly depend. It is then adsolutely neces- 

 sary to the advancement of science that scientific institutions of vari- 

 ous kinds should be supported by generous donations either from the 



