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MUCH has recently been said (so much, indeed, that the subject begins to get somewhat wearisome) regarding the necessity for wide-spread scientific instruction to enable our artisans to compete with the advancing industry of foreign countries. Technical education has become a kind of political cry, like the county franchise or women's electoral disabilities. We hear, continually, too, of the need for a more special training in science for such professional pursuits as those of the engineer and the military officer, or of the men who devote themselves to the task of geographical discovery. Far be it from me to say one word that would seem to imply an undervaluing of such practical applications of science. Most heartily do I wish that a technical school were established in every great town in the country, and that every man whose pursuits in life might call for the aid of science, should have the means of obtaining sound practical instruction in those branches likely to be of service to him.
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Introductory Lecture of the Murchison Chair of Geology at Edinburgh, Session 1872–3*. Nature 7, 183–185 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007183b0
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