On the Influence of Brain Power on History: An Address Delivered, Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Southport on September 9th, 1903Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1903 - 74 pages |
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... authorities know little and care less about science ; we have not learned that it is the duty of a State to organise its forces as carefully for peace as for war ; that Univer- sities and other teaching centres are as important as ...
... authorities know little and care less about science ; we have not learned that it is the duty of a State to organise its forces as carefully for peace as for war ; that Univer- sities and other teaching centres are as important as ...
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... authorities.1 In the year 1874 the subject was inquired into by the late Duke of Devonshire's Commission ; and after taking much remarkable evidence , including that of Lord Salisbury , the Commission recommended to the Government that ...
... authorities.1 In the year 1874 the subject was inquired into by the late Duke of Devonshire's Commission ; and after taking much remarkable evidence , including that of Lord Salisbury , the Commission recommended to the Government that ...
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... authorities than the headdress of the Guards ? How , in the words of Lord Curzon , 1 can " the life and vigour of a nation be summed up before the world in the person of its sovereign " if the national organisation is so defective that ...
... authorities than the headdress of the Guards ? How , in the words of Lord Curzon , 1 can " the life and vigour of a nation be summed up before the world in the person of its sovereign " if the national organisation is so defective that ...
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... authorities for the purposes of higher education and the encouragement of scientific research . During the eleven years 1890-1901 , the amount of these donations reached the grand total of nearly 23,000,000l . , as Table iii ...
... authorities for the purposes of higher education and the encouragement of scientific research . During the eleven years 1890-1901 , the amount of these donations reached the grand total of nearly 23,000,000l . , as Table iii ...
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... authorities might at any time modify or even divert their contributions . The figures are approximately1 as follows , reckoning the interest on investments , as heretofore , at 2 per cent . , and including in the Govern- ment grants ...
... authorities might at any time modify or even divert their contributions . The figures are approximately1 as follows , reckoning the interest on investments , as heretofore , at 2 per cent . , and including in the Govern- ment grants ...
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A. E. SHIPLEY Aberystwyth ALFRED AINGER American amount of benefactions applications of science battleships BRAIN-POWER ON HISTORY Britain British Association buildings Captain Mahan Chamberlain civilised commerce committee corresponding societies Council Crown 8vo depend efficiency five millions France German Universities Germany grants higher education importance income increase industries INFLUENCE OF BRAIN-POWER institutions intellectual effort Jena knowledge Königsberg Léon Foucault Lord Rosebery M.A. VOL MACMILLAN matter ment Minister modern world nation nation of shopkeepers Navy neglect Nicholas Murray Butler number of students object opinion organisation peace present Prince Consort private effort private endowment Productive Funds Prussia Prussian Universities question recognised referred scientific education scientific spirit sea-power sities South Dakota supremacy TABLE teaching Territory things tion United Kingdom Univer Universities and colleges University Colleges University education University of Birmingham University of Wales utilisation Value of Libraries versity Wales wealth
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Page 7 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 51 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 38 - The movement in England to which I have referred began in 1872, when a society for the organisation of academical study was formed in connection with the inquiry into the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge, and there was a famous meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mark Pattison being in the chair. Brodie, Rolleston, Carpenter, Burdon-Sanderson were among the speakers, and the first resolution carried was, " That to have a class of men whose lives are devoted to research is a national object.
Page 45 - These impediments may be caused either by the social condition of the country itself, by restrictions arising out of peculiar laws, by the political separation of different countries, or by the magnitude of the undertakings being out of all proportion to the means and power of single...
Page 8 - It is a struggle between organized species — nations— not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations. The school, the university, the laboratory and the workshop are the battlefields of this new warfare.
Page 51 - Not more than two complete townships to be given perpetually for the purposes of a University, to be laid off by the purchaser or purchasers, as near the center as may be, so that the same shall be of good land, to be applied to the intended object by the legislature of the State.
Page 43 - Haldane has recently reminded us that ' the weapons which science places in the hands of those who engage in great rivalries of commerce leave those who are without them, however brave, as badly off as were the dervishes of Omdurman against the maxims of Lord Kitchener.
Page 66 - To discover the exceptional man in every department of study whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.
Page 21 - Universities must become as much the insurers of the future progress as battleships are the insurers of the present power of States. In other words, University competition between States is now as potent as competition in building battleships ; and it is on this ground that our University conditions become of the highest national concern, and therefore have to be referred to here, and all the more because our industries are not alone in question. Why we have not more Universities. Chief among the...
Page 34 - But even more wonderful than these examples is the " intellectual effort " made by Japan, not after a war, but to prepare for one. The question is, Shall we wait for a disaster and then imitate Prussia and France ; or shall we follow Japan and thoroughly prepare by