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IT is all very well to say, Let our children be taught science in the schools; but that does not meet the need of a large section of the nation, the product of the schools of a former generation. Many hard-worked men who had no scientific teaching whilst at school, have now acquired the wish to know more of nature's mysteries, but know not whither to turn for aid. Books are plentiful, but it is very tiresome to wade through dry pages, scientifically dried of their sap by the use of terms which are not commonly understood—especially after the wearying labours of the day. Experimental lectures, like those at the Royal Institution, but a little more specialised, are wanted for popular use; the question is, How are we to get them? Are we to go to Government for aid, or shall we bestir ourselves and voluntarily endow these lectures?
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FRASER, G. Science Lectures for the People. Nature 4, 120 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004120c0
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