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(Hear, hear.) No doubt we should all of us who love science, how- 
ever little qualified we may be to speak of it on our own authority, 
unquestionably contend that science ought not to be cultivated solely 
for the profit it may bring to those who cultivate it— whether profit 
to the individual or profit to great industries. ^Ye should all feel 
that science should be cultivated for herself, and that it is only when 
so cultivated that she is ready to reveal her secrets to us. But never- 
theless you will none of you disagree with me when I say that it is a 
very important duty of scientific men, and an important branch of 
scientific enquiry, that science should be brought to bear upon the 
great industries of the country, and that her aid should be afforded 
largely to the promotion of these industries in every direction. That 
certainly, I am convinced, is the necessity of the present day. If 
ever there was a time in which the connection between science and 
industr}^ — the importance of it — was forcing itself more and more 
upon the country, that is the present day ; because we are coming to 
see that men abroad had run ahead of us, and if we desire to keep 
up the character of our industrial undertakings, it can only be by 
bringing them into the closest possible communion with scientific 
investigation, and the progress of science in every direction. (Ap- 
plause.) Such, ladies and gentlemen, was the origin of this society, 
started in the year 1837 ; and I find, from our records, that the first 
meeting of which the proceedings of our society contain an account, 
was held in 1839, under the presidency of the late vicar of Leeds, 
and Dean of Chichester, Dr. Hook. And upon that occasion that 
eminent man whom those who, like myself, recollect to have been one 
of the most remarkable men of his day — that eminent man in 1839 
took an opportunity of stating his conviction that there was no real 
opposition between science and religion, or between religion and 
geology. (Hear, hear.) You know very well the strange prejudices 
which existed upon that subject at the time of which I am speaking, 
and it shows the clear-sightedness of Dr. Hook that he should have 
been prepared at that period to have given expression to an opinion 
that was not so common then among gentlemen with whom he used 
to associate, although it is admitted by gentlemen of every creed 
to-day. It must be a source of greatest gratification that these 
