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best to leave to posterity a name that will be honoured. 
One other sentiment Sir William Huggins expresses is :— 
“Glorious will be the days when, through a reform of our 
higher education, every man going up to the Universities will 
have been from his earliest years under the stimulating power of 
a personal training in practical elementary science; all his 
natural powers being brought to a state of high efficiency, and 
his mind actively proving al] things under the vivifying influence 
of freedom of opinion. Throughout life he will be on the best 
terms with nature, living a longer life under her protecting care, 
and through the further disclosures of herself rising successively 
to higher levels of being and of knowledge.” 
The sentiments of the whole of the valuable report 
ought to be embedded in the minds of all who value 
education and the march of science. Then in speaking of 
the early education of youth, elementary science, taught 
with the aid of experiment during a boy’s early years, 
cannot fail to develop the faculty of observation. However 
keen in vision, the eyes see little without training in 
observation by the subtle exercise of the mind behind 
them. 
From the humblest weed to the stars in their courses, 
all nature is a great object lesson for the acquirement of 
the power of rapid and accurate noting of minute and 
quickly changing aspects in the simpler methods of 
scientific observation; it confers upon a man for life 
the possession of an inexhaustible source of interest 
and delight, and is of no mean advantage in the 
keen competition of the intellectual activities of the 
present day. 
