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WILL you allow me a few lines in which to express my entire agreement with your recent article on this subject, if only to emphasise the fact that I am not the author of the article, and that the opinions there expressed are not those of an isolated individual. The reason for the comparative neglect of natural science at Oxford is that, however well-disposed some individuals may be, the college tutors and lecturers as a rule dislike it. They dislike it for two reasons. First, because it cannot be taught in the college parlours called lecture-rooms; and second, because they are, as a rule, ignorant—owing to their own defective education—of the nature and scope of the immense field of study comprised under the head “natural science.” They do not know either the enormous educational value of natural science, or its vital importance to our national life and development.
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LAKKESTER, E. The Position of Science at Oxford. Nature 54, 295 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054295b0
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