able to supply them. But we must wait till the demand is made.

FOOTNOTE:

[2] For a justification of what is here said about these schools, see
that valuable book, "Essays on a Liberal Education," _passim_.




IV.

SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH.

[MR. THACKERAY, talking of after-dinner speeches, has
lamented that "one never can recollect the fine things one thought
of in the cab," in going to the place of entertainment. I am not
aware that there are any "fine things" in the following pages, but
such as there are stand to a speech which really did get itself
spoken, at the hospitable table of the Liverpool Philomathic
Society, more or less in the position of what "one thought of in
the cab."]


The introduction of scientific training into the general education of
the country is a topic upon which I could not have spoken, without some
more or less apologetic introduction, a few years ago. But upon this, as
upon other matters, public opinion has of late undergone a rapid
modification. Committees of both Houses of the Legislature have agreed
that something must be done in this direction, and have even thrown out