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hat he contributes to the general stock of new knowledge. Some persons however, who have not fully considered the subject, wish to receive not only the advantages accruing from the common stock of knowledge, but also to reserve to themselves the entire benefit arising from their own special contributions.
Experience alone will prove which of the foregoing schemes is the most suitable in this country, or in particular cases. At present the plan largest in operation is the system of Government Grants, next in magnitude are the other funds distributed by the Royal Society, the British Association, the Chemical Society, the Royal Institution, the Birmingham Philosophical Society, and those provided by the munificence of private individuals. It is greatly to be hoped that the liberal spirit of private individuals will yet further remove the great blot which lies upon the reputation of the wealthy manufacturers, capitalists, and land-owners, who have derived such great profits from scientific research and have scarcely aided it at all in return. It is also to be desired that the Corporations of manufacturing towns will recognise the value of original scientific enquiry to their fellow townsmen, and will undertake the responsibility of voting money from municipal funds to promote it.
Notes
See p.p. 165 to 167.
Essays and Addresses, Owen's College, 1874, pp. 172-182.
In the year 1870, a gentleman of the name of Davis bequeathed ?2,000 to the Royal Institution, London, to aid original scientific research.
Professor Bache left 50,000 dollars, and Smithson bequeathed 541,000 dollars to this Institution.
Respecting the Members of our Houses of Legislature, a former Postmaster-General remarked to me, that a dose of scientific research would be too much for them.
The Victoria University has recently become a partial exception to this statement.
See "Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers," vol. 5, pp. 719 and 890; and vol. 8, p. 1,010.
NOTE.--See "Work and Wages," by Brassey, p.p. 15-131 and 132; also the "Laboratory," vol. 1, p.p. 313-316, 378 and 380.
NOTE.--The whole of this chapter, especially the Moral Section, is capable of great amplification and much more copious illustration.
NOTE.--See also p. 95.
NOTE.--Athenaeum, Aug. 3, 1877. p. 242.
"Wish and Will," by L. Turner, M.A.
"The Mutual Relations of Physical Science and Religious Faith."
Port Royal Logic, Discourse 1.
See p. 91-92.
See "Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances," by P. W. Simmonds.
See p. 165, et seq.
It would I consider be an improvement in our educational arrangements, if a Professorial chair, solely devoted to teaching those laws and principles, existed in each Scientific College.
See vols. 1 2 of the Reports of that Commission.
See pages 100 and 101.
See page 68, et seq. p. 134.
The Mastership of the Mint is no longer given to scientific men.
See Reports of Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and Advancement of Science, Vol 2, pp. 75-92.
A fleet of thirty ships, varying in size from 500 to 5000 tons each, is employed in laying and repairing telegraph cables, and 25 millions of pounds have already been invested in submarine cable enterprises.
Changes made against printed original.
Page 11. "our knowledge of the substance": 'knowwledge' in original.
Page 24. "Nearly every manufacturer": 'ever' in original.
Page 32. "Persons in general can easily understand": 'ean easily' in original.
Page 39. "wealthy persons who have devoted themselves": 'themselver' in original.
Page 62. "also all terrestrial forces": 'terrestial' in original.
Page 81. "better systems of hygiene": 'hygeine' in original.
Page 114. "course in which the throng is densest": 'the' repeated across line break in original.
Ibid. "thousands of different chemical compounds": 'compouuds' in original.
Page 116. "emits and absorbs": 'aborbs' in original.
Page 119. "In every genuine volition": 'volitition' in original.
Page 126. "purely physical and chemical conditions.": 'physicial' in original.
Page 127. "the judicial detection of truth": 'judical' in original.
Ibid. "completely converted into acquired tendencies": 'completly ... tendences' in original.
Page 134. "the present state of civilization": 'civilzation' in original.
Ibid. "to withhold truth from ignorant patients": 'withold' in original.
Ibid. "lists of our moral deficiencies": 'deficiences' in original.
Page 135. "there exist no royal roads to happiness": 'their exist' in original.
Page 151. "a diminution of waste": 'dimunition' in original.
Page 152. "twenty millions of pounds annually": 'anually' in original.
Ibid. "Photography is also largely used in our gaols": 'in our goals' in original.
Page 158. "acting under the same conditions": 'conitions' in original.
Ibid. "every phenomenon requires time": 'requiries' in original.
Page 182. "to be carried out effectually": 'effectualy' in original.
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