: The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality by Gore George - Science; Ethics; Progress

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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.

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