ation. There
exists no category of sciences to which the name of "applied science"
could be given. We have science and the applications of science which
are united as tree and fruit.'

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A final reflection is here suggested. We have amongst us a small
cohort of social regenerators--men of high thoughts and
aspirations--who would place the operations of the scientific mind
under the control of a hierarchy which should dictate to the man of
science the course that he ought to pursue. How this hierarchy is to
get its wisdom they do not explain. They decry and denounce
scientific theories; they scorn all reference to aether, and atoms,
and molecules, as subjects lying far apart from the world's needs; and
yet such ultra-sensible conceptions are often the spur to the greatest
discoveries. The source, in fact, from which the true natural
philosopher derives inspiration and unifying power is essentially
ideal. Faraday lived in this ideal world. Nearly half a century ago,
when he first obtained a spark from the magnet, an Oxford don
expressed regret that such a discovery should have been made, as it
placed a new and facile implement in the hands of the incendiary. To
regret, a Comtist hierarchy would have probably added repression,
sending Faraday back to his bookbinder's bench as a more dignified and
practical sphere of action than peddling with a magnet. And yet it is
Faraday's spark which now shines upon our coasts, and promises to
illuminate our streets, halls, quays, squares, warehouses, and,
perhaps at no distant day, our homes.

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