Year: 1873

people that we perceive that the practical thing


FOR the good OF society and large masses OF men s the
power 10 use the trained TO the highest culture and
discipline 10 the moro prosperous results that constitute
the practical education that society needs, md which u
will most honor when II sees It's resources exhibited In


And now Sir TO conclude these careless. and mnst
say useless, observations my part let me can your
attention and that of this audience 20 somewhat whiD
seal notion OF modern German physician noticed by
MI: Craob Robinson In mis- memoirs.


He discovered, then recently published, In the early
part OF the century when he was travelling IN Gerany
really very learned work OF eminent physician
and IN the preface the author had taken In entire good


faith this proposition the result OF his Investigation
into the affairs OF men; that diseases and all the acc
dents which brought men under the OF tho medical
profession were all not evils and not IN themselves OBJ


ects which required but that the whole intent and
purpose Of the divine arrangement in the permitting OF
disease and these mlsortunes was the training OF able
and learned physicians. lIaughterI


magnificent ideal Applied 70 the learned profes
the clergy il az once accounts existence
of moral eyi-tlaughter-that this final good OF the
production OF eloquent aud learned cergymen should be
youchsafed the human Laughterl


And IN my own profession that all the msfortunes In
ali that brings to the lawyers oice finds
and its justification IN the brilliant result OF the skilled
t to its last analysis propose you gentlonen, that
the shines in order that Prof Tyndail may demon
strate 1t.


SPEECH OF PROF. TYNDALL.
Prof. Tyndall, rising to respond, said:
| happen to know that my friend Prot. Henry, and
also friend Prof Agassiz asked TO occupy the
position now occupied by Mr. Evarts. / intended
mencng tonight in a meek, modest trembling way, to
express regret that neither the the other O
those gentlemen is present as a guest


freely and honestly say that wish either the
the other was present as our President tonight.


Laughterl for how am to get on with my poor. lame,
commonplace utterances after the speech that you have
just heard, am at a loss to conceive. lLaughter


notice, also, that enyious hand has CARED an
object away from which might have derived some
amount OF inspiration here.


There Matterhorn there, and two guides fell
low hanging by a rope, and there all the pomp and
circumstance Of mountain climbing which, had IL re
mained there, would have given me some small amount
OF inspiration But that is gone.


should like to have Prof. Henry here, because
before took on my scientific svaddling clothes he
man in the very van Of experimental science.


think it is TO be deplored-f celebrated friend OF
mine sitting at this table will allow TO connect his
with expression Of regre-I say think It il To
be deplored that of his force investigator
should have been transformed into administrator,
however high that Office may be in Washington.


And think it is also TO be regretted regards my
very celebrated friend that he has been DETECTED from
this investigation in which he certainly man OF
the greatest mark upon this continent.


say, think from scientific point of view il s TO he
depored that DETECTED from this intellectual line
OF pursuit TO write history. With regard to Prof.
Agassiz. would say / would say first met aim al
Geneva in 1889 that have followed his footsteps. TO
some extent through those scenes that both love,
the glores OF the Alps.


should like 20 say word regarding visit made
TO Cambridge. went with Prof. Agassz through tho
great Institution OF which he is the head, and had
occasion to observe the manner Of working with his
pupils, and will say for all, and with all sincerity,
that If from those pupils do not spring able and
willing to carry the fire OF investigation forward IT s
not in my opinion the fault Of the master there. ZAP
plause


You have referred TO those lectures which, am free
to say has given both delight and surprise 10 find
among the people OF the United States


The shown In these lectures cannot have been
the creation of the hour Every such display Of public
sympathy must have lite prelude, during which mems
minds are prepared desire for knowledge created
intelligent curiosity aroused Then IN the nick OF time
person, who though but an accident touches
spring which permits tendency 10 flow into fact and
public feeling 10 pass from the potential 10 the actual
The interest displayed has really been the work OF years
and the chief merit rests with those who we're wise
enough to discern that regards physics the detent
might be removed and the public sympathy for that de
partment OF science permitted TO show itself Among
the foremost OF those who this must be reckoned
my indefaugable friend Prot Youmans. In no other
way can I account for my four months experience
the United States. The soil had been prepared and the
good seed sown long before 1 among you. AndH
Is on this belief that the subject has root deeper than
the curiosity OF the hour that found hopes oi lts
not passing rapidly from the public mind.


II would be great thing, Sir, for this land OF incal-
cuable desnies TO supplement it's achievements IN the
industrial arts by those higher investigations from
which mastery nature and over industrial art
has been derived, and which, when applied 10 true
catholic spirit TO himself Will assuredly render him
healthier stronger purer, nober than he now s To no
other country is the Guilty. OF science In s highest
forms OF Importance than 70 yours. In no other
country would it exert more benign and elevatng in
huence What then is TO be done toward so desirable
consummationi Here think you must take counsel OF


NsN.., xolw
recommend something OF this kind. think, regards
physical science they likely to you that II Is
not what may call the satical element of buildings
that you require so much the dynamcal element OF
brains Making far as possible OF existing insttr-
tions, let chairs be founded, sufficiently but not
uxuriousy endowed, which shall have original re-
search for their main object and ambition. With such
vital centers among you, all your establishments OF edu
cation would feel their influence without such centers
even your primary instruction will flourish IL
ought. I would not, as a general rule, wholly sever
tuition from inves CATION, but IN the Institution TO
which belong the ought 20 be made subservieDt TO
tho other The Royal Institution gives lectures-ndeed
II lives in part by lectures, though mainly by the con
rbuons members and the requests of Its friends
But the main feature Of its exstencea feature never
lost sight of by wise and honorable Board OF Mana
eerss that IL school OF research and discovery.
And though bylaw gives them the power TO do so for
the 20 years during which have been there no manager
or member Of the Institution has ever nerered with
my researches 1t is this wise freedom accompanied by
a never-failing sympathy extended TO the great men
who preceded me- that has given the Royal Institution
its mperishabe renOwn.


Ihsye said that could not wholly tuition from
investigation, and should like to add one word to this
remark In your chairs o; investigation let such work
as that in which have been lately engaged be reduced
TO a minimun. Look jealousy upon the man who Ia
fond Of wandering from his true vocation appear
"a das
OF original work Of high order. Now then the dis
coverer when he has anything important TO tel may