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WILL you allow me, with the utmost respect, to remind your able correspondent, that every individual in the state pays taxes for ignorance and inefficiency; while so interwoven are the interests of man with man—so often does inquiry after the most abstract principles lead to valuable practical results, that it is impossible to predict in which department of Science discoveries may be made that shall materially lighten these unsatisfactory imposts. Hence the field of research should be open to all and every facility afforded. If this be not the duty of the State it is difficult to explain its raison d'ètre.
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A., E. Government Aid to Science. Nature 1, 385–386 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001385b0
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