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of what people prefer to eat; but they only do so at isolated stages of their operations, which are for the most part governed by the same scientific principles as if their products were to be put to any other use. This cannot be said of the chocolate-maker or the oleomargarine-maker or the brewer. It is true of the distiller and the rectifier, though less decidedly than of the market-gardener and the fruitgrower. Other sciences to be included in this group are tobacco-curing, tobacco-manufacture, snuff-making, cigar-rolling, cigarette-making.

Among sciences intended to minister to the Grab-instinct, we are not, of course, to include economics; for this is merely the theory of wealth, and is not pursued with a view of making the investigator of it or his pupils rich. But we are to include book-keeping, rating, banking, patenting, insurance, safe making, lock-making, the construction of registers of cash and of carfares, fire-extinguishing, etc. There is an immense deal of knowledge which every business-man requires; but most of it is too pecu-