Science, Scholarships, and the State

Abstract

ALL scientific men must welcome the renewed vigour of the campaign for a recognition of science by the State, and incidentally for the introduction of scientific instruction into our public schools, a campaign in which NATURE has taken so prominent a part. I have followed with the greatest interest the pronouncements of the many eminent men on the subject of science and Government published from time to time, and in view of the greatness of the authorities who have written on the question it is with considerable diffidence that I direct attention to what seems to be an oversight in many of the views put forward as to the proper way to give science its due in England.