I Have No Desire To

That A Country, [england], Eminently Distinguished For Its Mechanical And Manufacturing Ingenuity, Should Be Indifferent To The Progress Of Inquiries Which Form The Highest Departments Of That Knowledge On Whose More Elementary Truths Its Wealth And Rank Depend, Is A Fact Which Is Well Deserving The Attention Of Those Who Shall Inquire Into The Causes That Influence The Progress Of Nations.

He Will Also Find That The High And Independent Spirit, Which Usually Dwells In The Breast Of Those Who Are Deeply Versed In Scientific Pursuits, Is Ill Adapted For Administrative Appointments; And That Even If Successful, He Must Hear Many Things He Disapproves, And Raise No Voice Against Them.

Science In England Is Not A Profession: Its Cultivators Are Scarcely Recognised Even As A Class. Our Language Itself Contains No Single Term By Which Their Occupation Can Be Expressed. We Borrow A Foreign Word [savant] From Another Country Whose High Ambition It Is To Advance Science, And Whose Deeper Policy, In Accord With More Generous Feelings, Gives To The Intellectual Labourer Reward And Honour, In Return For Services Which Crown The Nation With Imperishable Renown, And Ultimately Enrich The Human Race.

Forging Differs From Hoaxing, Inasmuch As In The Later The Deceit Is Intended To Last For A Time, And Then Be Discovered, To The Ridicule Of Those Who Have Credited It; Whereas The Forger Is One Who, Wishing To Acquire A Reputation For Science, Records Observations Which He Has Never Made.

The Triumph Of The Industrial Arts Will Advance The Cause Of Civilization More Rapidly Than Its Warmest Advocates Could Have Hoped, And Contribute To The Permanent Prosperity And Strength Of The Country Far More Than The Most Splendid Victories Of Successful War.