ence which republicanism has on the advance of science, Prof. 
318 3 NOTES. 
The burden of Professor Tyndall’s admirable and delightful 
speech was the importance of producing trained original investi- 
gators. He had alluded to this before in his sixth and concluding 
lecture, where he says, — 
“ When analysed, what are industrial America and industrial 
England? If you can tolerate freedom of speech on my part, 
v 
cle. And without those filaments of genius which have been shot 
like nerves through the body of society by the original discoverers, 
industrial America and industrial England would, I fear, be very 
much in the condition of that plastic dough. At the present time 
there is a cry in England for technical education, and it is the 
expression of a true national want; but there is no outery for 
original investigation. Still without this, as surely as the stream 
science. Such applications, especi: lly on this continent, s 
astounding—they spread themselves so largely and onenen 
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before the public eye—as to shut out from view those workers w 
_ are engaged in the profounder business of discovery.” 
After quoting De Tocqueville on the supposed unfavorable influ- 
