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country's natural resources, and this development must proceed 

 proportionately as Science, Art, Literature and Philosophy are 

 promoted. And as we see in Australia's unlimited natural stores 

 of wealth a practically boundless field for internal and international 

 commercial enterprise ; so we perceive the necessity, nay our duty, 

 at the present time when the foundation of our national greatness 

 is being laid, to determine that the gradual erection of the 

 superstructure be carried out with the precision and solidarity 

 that Science can demonstrate ; with the symmetry and adornment 

 which the refining guidance of Art affords ; and with that 

 recognition of world-wide relationship which Literature inspires ; 

 while Philosophy, all-embracing, in giving purpose and aim to all, 

 engenders that spirit of self-denying co-operation, which not only 

 advances the knowledge of Truth, but also rewards each worker 

 with the assurance of participating in the culminating unity 

 which Truth reveals. 



Plow, for instance, would the necessities of our iron 

 manufacturing branches of commerce be met, if the latest 

 scientific methods of reducing the raw ironstone to metal were 

 disregarded for the employment of the primitive blast forges? 

 Is not refinement in the character of an individual or a 

 community to be found expressed, and being expressed intensified, 

 in exhibitions of painting, music, floriculture, and architecture — 

 in the adornment, if only for mutual admiration and sympathy, 

 of the varied palatial buildings which the modern exigencies of 

 home life, trade and commerce require 1 How could we have 

 inherited that knowledge which is dispelling the darkness of 

 ignorance and in its freedom-giving light revealing the relationship 

 of every branch of mankind, were it not for the cultivation of 

 Literature 1 And whence would the self-sacrificing seekers after 

 Truth derive encouragement and hope, did not Philosophy indicate 

 the interdependence, fellowship and unity of all. 



Here then is the great work for our Society — a work based 

 upon true principles of progressive civilization, and advancing the 

 welfare of this country, not only for the country itself, but because- 



