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Professor Schuster went on to argue that, though the harnessing

of science to the practical needs of the community was of the highest importance, the achievement of wealth and power to the exclusion of higher aims could only lead to a superficial prosperity. In the worship of material success was to be found the seed of the pernicious ambition which has maddened a nation, and plunged Europe into war. He there- fore insisted that if we desire to enlist science in the service of practical life, it should not be because we place material wealth above intellectual enjoyment, but rather because we experience a double pleasure if the efforts of the mind contribute to the welfare of the nation.