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be supported both by private effort and local taxation. 

 Huxley states that he supported the principles involved 

 in the Bill for Technical Education abandoned in 1886. 

 This proposed to provide some authority which should 

 sanction or veto local schemes. 



The question of supply of teachers is treated in detail. 

 A special system is required to turn out teachers of 

 science or technology. The present system is quite in- 

 adequate for the purpose from the pupil-teacher stage 

 upwards : — 



"When does the unhappy pupil-teacher, or over -drilled 

 student of a training college, find any time to think ? I am sure 

 that if I were in their place I could not." 



An eye must be kept on measures necessary for pre- 

 serving the entire social organism in a sound and stable 

 condition. Allusion is made to the keen and necessary 

 competition between different nations : — 



" Our sole chance of succeeding in a competition, which must 

 continually become more and more severe, is that our people 

 should not only have the knowledge and the skill which are 

 required, but that they should have the will and the energy and 

 the honesty, without which neither knowledge nor skill can be 

 of any permanent avail." 



Any social condition involving misery, physical weak- 

 ness, and degradation of the worker is bound to bring 

 about a collapse. The question of cheapness of labour 

 is admitted to be a difficult problem, and finally an 

 appeal is made that in promoting industrial education an 

 attempt shall be made to secure, — 



"... that the conditions of industrial life remain those in which 

 the physical energies of the population may be maintained at a 

 proper level ; in which their moral state may be cared for ; in 

 which there may be some rays of hope and pleasure in their lives ; 



