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was more closely associated with scientific workers, and promote 
a proper system of encouragement of research workers, 
especially Universities. The fault mm the past, no doubt, 
had been partly due to the remissness of the Government 
in failing to create careers for scientific men.” 
On July Ist, 1915, Lloyd George stated, in Parliament, 
that he was fully alive to the great importance of securing 
the co-operation of scientific workers throughout the country, 
and of utilizing, as far as practicable, the laboratories and 
workshops of Universities and Technical Schools. 
These statements made by Cabinet Ministers are most 
encouraging, especially as we are chiefly governed by lawyers 
educated im classics, whose intellects, sometimes brilliant, are 
trained to regard dialectical. skill, precedence, authority, and 
expediency, as more important than facts.* 
Recently the State has appointed an Advisory Council on 
Scientific and Industrial Research to promote co-operation — 
between manufacturers and scientific workers. The British 
Science Guild has also been founded “with the object of 
introducing scientific organisation and thought into the affairs | 
of the nation.” A very influential committee has been | 
formed on “ Neglect of Science,” 
which held an important — 
conference at Burlington House. The newly appointed Medical | 
Research Committee is doing a most valuable work for the 
National Health Insurance Committee. 
‘Vestep INTERESTS” In CLASSICS. 
The national neglect of Science, with all its disastrous 
consequences in peace and especially in this war, is largely due 
to the dominance of the “vested interests” in classics. 
* “ T saw a statement the other day that the operations not only of our 
Army but of our Allies were being crippled, or at any rate hampered, by 
our failure to provide the necessary ammunition. There is not a word of 
truth in that statement” (italics mine).—-Mr. Asquith at Newcastle, April 20th, | 
1915. 
