I think sufficient has been said to prove my point, that the " wealth " that has been made has gone to the " creators " of that wealth; at all events, to indicate that our progress has not been caused by "the working class." If we are not progressing so fast at the present time, it is because we are not directing sufficient attention to the acquisition of "new knowledge." We want professorships for "original research," to be well paid, and the results published at the expense of the State, that inventors, manufacturers, medical men, and others might apply them to their respective purposes. As to the value, you cannot measure the value of "new knowledge." Who could have foretold with certainty, at the date of Orsted's discovery of electro-magnetism, that this discovery would result in the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds upon telegraphs alone? Such a position is no sinecure, as many researches are extremely dangerous. Thilorier was killed by the explosion of a vessel of liquefied carbonic anhydride; Dulong lost an eye and finger; and Sir Humphrey Davy was wounded by an explosion of chloride of nitrogen; Faraday was near being blinded by an experiment with oxygen; Nickles, of Nancy, and Louyet, of Brussels, lost their lives, and two other chemists were seriously injured in health, by exposure to the excessively dangerous fumes of hydrofluoric acid ; Bunsen lost the sight of an eye, and was nearly poisoned, by an explosion whilst analyzing cyanide of cacodyl; Hennel was killed by an explosion of fulminate of silver, and Chapman by one of nitrate of