Excerpt from Science, Vol. 8: An Illustrated Journal, Published Weekly; July-December 1886 I wish again to call attention to the forcible illustration to which allusion has already been made. A few months since, the question was. Raised whether the gas -works of Philadelphia. Should be sold. Few understood the question; and it is said that a systematic agitation in favor of private works was conducted by a vast corpora tion, which had its eyes fastened on them as a mine of wealth. But there was one man in Philadelphia who did understand the question in all its bearings, and that was Dr. James. He came forward and set the matter in its true light, and I have been told that his influence was decisive. At any rate, it had weight, and the gas-works. Remain to-day the property of the municipality. That decision was worth many millions of dollars to the city of Philadelphia, and is an illustration of the value of the higher education. All that. The University of Pennsylvania ever cost the citi zens of Philadelphia, either in their private or pub lic capacity, is a small matter compared to the value to that municipality of a single man who occupies a chair in that institution of learning. 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.