[2] The advocacy of the introduction of physical science into general education by George Combe and others commenced a good deal earlier; but the movement had acquired hardly any practical force before the time to which I refer. [3] _Essays in Criticism_, p. 37. [4] “Quamvis enim melius sit bene facere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.”—“Karoli Magni Regis Constitutio de Scholis per singula Episcopia et Monasteria instituendis,” addressed to the Abbot of Fulda. Baluzius, “Capitularia Regum Francorum,” T. i., p. 202. [5] Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrew February 1, 1867, by J. S. Mill, Rector of the University (pp. 32, 33). [6] “Suggestions for Academical Organisation, with Especial Reference to Oxford.” By the Rector of Lincoln. [7] Goethe, _Zahme Xenien, Vierte Abtheilung_. I should be glad to take credit for the close and vigorous English version; but it is my wife’s, and not mine. [8] See the “Programme” for 1878, issued by the Society of Arts, p. 14. [9] It is perhaps advisable to remark that the important question of the professional education of managers of industrial works is not touched in the foregoing remarks. [10] “Quasi cursores, vitaï lampada tradunt.”—LUCR. _De Rerum Nat._ ii. 78. [11] “Life and Correspondence of Dr. Priestley,” by J. T. Rutt. Vol. i. p. 50. [12] “Autobiography,” §§ 100, 101. [13] See “The Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck.” Mrs. Schimmelpenninck (_née_ Galton) remembered Priestley very well, and her description of him is worth quotation:—“A man of admirable simplicity, gentleness and kindness of heart, united with great acuteness of intellect. I can never forget the impression produced on me by the serene expression of his countenance. He, indeed, seemed present with God by recollection, and with man by cheerfulness. I remember that, in the assembly of these distinguished men, amongst whom Mr. Boulton, by his noble manner, his fine countenance (which much resembled that of Louis XIV.), and princely munificence, stood pre-eminently as the great Mecænas; even as a child, I used to feel, when Dr. Priestley entered after him, that the glory of the one was terrestrial, that of the other celestial; and utterly far as I am removed from a belief in the sufficiency of Dr. Priestley’s theological creed, I cannot but here record this evidence of the eternal power of any portion of the truth held in its vitality.” [14] Even Mrs. Priestley, who might be forgiven for regarding the destroyers of her household gods with some asperity, contents herself, in writing to Mrs. Barbauld, with the sarcasm that the Birmingham people “will scarcely find so many respectable characters, a second time, to make a bonfire of.” [15] “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air,” vol. ii. p. 31. [16] _Ibid._ pp. 34, 35. [17] “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air,” vol. ii. p. 40. [18] _Ibid._ p. 48. [19] _Ibid._ p. 55.