NOTES. 319 
“It rests wita you to prove whether these things are necessa- 
midst of you a onat home. Ishould be loth to gainsay so o keen 
an observer and so profound a critical writer, but since my arrival 
in this-country, I have been unable to see anything in the consti- 
tution of society to prevent any student with the root of the mat- 
ter in him from bestowing the most steadfast devotion to pa 
science. If great scientific results are not achieved in America, 
itis not to the small agitations of society that I should be dis- 
posed to ascribe the defect, but to the fact that men among you 
who possess the genius for scientific inquiry are laden with duties 
of administration or tuiti o heavy as to be utterly incompati- 
itati hi riginal in- 
vestigation deman ds. I do not think this state of things likely to 
last. I have seen in America willingness on the part of indi- 
viduals to devote their fortunes in the matter of education to the 
service of the commonwealth, for which 1 cannot find a.parallel 
elsewhere. 
This willingness of private men to devote fortunes to public 
purposes requires but wise aaa i to enable you to render null 
and void the prediction De Tocqueville. Your most difficult 
within that body a living soul. u have scientific genius among 
you; not sown broadcast, believe ii, but still -e here and 
there. Take all unnecessary impediments out of its way. You 
have asked me to give these lectures, ae : er aie them to 
better account than by asking you in tur emember that the 
td is usually the aana of EEROR, wealth amassed 
by better men. It is not as lecturers, but as discoverers, that you 
ought te employ your highest men. Keep your sympathe etic eye 
upon the originator of knowledge. Give him the freedom neces- 
=> time E that truth may appear. If you sees read 
then be assured it will Te to you, though 
any days. 
aN he enforces this idea in.a practical way in his dinner 
Speec 
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nasaan 
“ To no other country is the cultivation of science in its highest 
2 you must take counsel of your leading scientific men, and they are 
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