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SCIENTIFIC men are of three kinds: the young, the middle aged, and the old. It is difficult to say which needs help the most; but there is one work in which they can all severally take part, and from which they canc each obtain that comfortable leisure which is the one thing needful for original research. That work is simply the work of teaching. And here let me not be misunderstood. By teaching science, I do not mean the miserable practices now carried on, but teaching on a scale commensurate with the great needs of a great nation, and in a way calculated to bring about the blessings that follow inevitably on true, thorough scientific knowledge.
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SICCO, I. Relations of the State to Scientific Research.—II.. Nature 2, 24–25 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002024b0
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