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day utilize in his practise. To slight the "leisure-class problems of true science" in the supposed interest of activities which "earn their bread in terms of usefulness for the questions of life" is really to mistake that interest, and to wound technology in the house of its friends. Lastly, science and technology are alike in their free recourse to the established laws and approved methods of logic. Science is, on the whole, more rigorous than technology in this logical regard; not through any superior virtue in the man of science, but simply because the technologist, in the nature of the case, is a logical opportunist, working for results and towards a practical end, and therefore content to work in a logical twilight so long as results are forthcoming and progress can be reported. That the technologist should, on occasion, betray impatience with the stricter canons of scientific procedure is only natural. That the student of science should stir in his own defence-must also be expected: how great, after all, are the benefits that science has conferred upon humanity! What we may hope for is that men of intelligence and sound training, after they have been distributed by temperament or circumstance to scientific and technological activities, may still so far keep in touch that each understands the other's limitations and sympathizes with the other's ideals.