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Excerpt from The Chemical Question: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding, President of the United States
I know it is difficult to get statesmen sufficiently roused to the value of anything purely scientific, or to think it justi fies any Government care. Even Gladstone, scholar and statesman though he was, when Faraday was explaining one of his epoch-making discoveries, could only remark, 'but after all, Mr. Faraday, what use is it?' 'why, sir, ' replied Faraday, 'there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it.' When fully developed the Chemical industry will open many new sources of revenue for a hungry Treasury and here at least is something that would lighten the burden of industry and help to sweeten the lives of every one of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
