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establishment of such an order, but that if you were in 

 my place you would establish it." Long after, the idea 

 bore fruit in the initiation of the Order of Merit (O.M). 

 To this year, too, must be referred the article on the 

 " Progress of Science " (Coll. Essays, i, p. 42), written for 

 Mr. Humphry Ward's Jubilee book on The Reign of 

 Queen Victoria. This speaks of the great increase of 

 industrial production, owing to the invention of machinery, 

 including increased facilities of locomotion and intercom- 

 munication. The advance was largely due to Physical 

 Science. From the times of ancient Greece science 

 remained at a standstill for 1 000 years, making renewed 

 progress during the last three centuries. The direct 

 influence of Bacon is challenged : — 



" No delusion is greater than the notion that method and 

 industry can make up for lack of mother wit, either in science or 

 practical life. . . ." 



A tribute is paid to Hobbes and Descartes, and the 

 work of Galileo, Harvey, Boyle and Newton stated to 

 be independent of Baconian and Cartesian methods. 

 Mention is made of Pascal, Torricelli, Malpighi, Grew, 

 Ray and Willoughby. Investigators of the highest rank 

 are not influenced by utilitarian ends : — 



" That which stirs their pulses is the love of knowledge and 

 the joy of the discovery of the causes of things sung by the old 

 poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and 

 order ever further towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely 

 great and the infinitely small, between which our little race of 

 life is run." 



Technical education is reacting on science, the interests 

 of which are identical with those of industry. " Physical 

 science is one and indivisible." Our epoch is pre- 

 eminent as the result of the doctrines to which it has 



