The Archive · 1903

The Value of Exact

KNOWLEDGE, and wides great deal of satistietor been possible without the great ex actness der of th processes of these days. TF Georg: Stephenson had had fo wa tit. till was an expert in the chemical one struction of coal and the mathe: of the steam engine we should had to wait for one railways. with hundreds of other useful plications of scientific disc We have not hesitated to employ the power of electricity althonh to this day we do not know whether we dealing with a Hnid or with: something else. But though nature allows liberties to be taken in ways like th she will not always permit stich rude attempts to gain her grace: At times she is coy, One may come in a hair's breadth of satisfying her conditions and then fail, fail utterly because he has neglected to note a fractional part of degree in' temperature, or kas used a usicroscope p amiss, Chat is where the benefit of nee comes in a constant felt mere than an:

ing else by those extremely cre student draws fron ture the sv which lie at the bottom work, things improving in th spect hone: Cnqnestionably the The trampot call to arise and these, he finds won. She is just bidding as she is te sweet will, steps ow tot sheep has been heard, net have be ible thirty vincial city they wontd a qtarior of a rool, Yet th: abi raven has just dune, rthern th living than bane Who stich results Who would be 1 ly te set up at phil These schools simple, pit prac tien! as 1 taken a leaf out of f no less an authority than fond peers, who, long years 1 out that theory shoul lowed by" prac in these any hee ins aod ants rangily taught and fis then sent to the: practical depart. chinery, to the value hon sands of pounds in a ronly tox him to apply Xperist vi i Oh. 2 expensive in rapidly becoming there atte mnnitioont Phe Carnegie Institute: will spre oot as anueh money Tame year as the Royal Institution has Spent in the nodes ne must: of the by the ile el nec the experiment the wall. and of all the mores fee sty than has the Enewhele of thy Hissies prevented the doeadene the Chinas: Ue begansl tommkee det time, sanita ENGINE] RING AND

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