Proceedings of the first Independence congress : held in the city of Manila, Philippine islands, February 22-26, 1930 / Published under the direction of Dean maximo M. Kalaw, executive secretary, University of the Philippines.

202 INDEPENDENCE CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS

same time technical industries are built up whereby the masses
of the people may find lucrative employment. In this way
people become trained to utilize their time and energy for some
productive endeavor, and at the same time earn living wages.
This would tend to raise the standard of living. Our lack
of industrial development gives us so much unemployed man
power in the provinces. It, therefore, becomes a function of
the state to encourage industrial development, to create wealth
for the country, give employment to the masses, and thereby
help elevate the earning capacity of the people.
Among the manifold uses and application of science in the
life of a nation several facts stand out in bold relief-sanitation and hygiene in order that the population may grow in
number and in strength; agriculture which furnishes raw material for the industries so that the people may have the necessities and comfort of life; the industries so that the raw
agricultural products can be converted into elaborate commodities for the world's market and to establish a more solid
economic foundation; and last but not least is the encouragement of research in science so that the instruments of national
defense can be developed to the highest efficiency, and the
country may be able to defend itself when attacked in the course
of its national existence. A people highly imbued with scientific ideas, who make use of science in all national activities,
can well look with confidence into the future.
We should bear in mind the significant statement of a British
scientist in which emphasis is laid on the fact that science conquers all.
"Sciencia vinces-whether it be on the field of battle, on
the waves of the ocean, amid the din and smoke of the
workshop, or on the broad acres under the light of heaven;
and assuredly, in the future, even more than in the past,
not only the prosperity, but even the existence of the
nation will be found to depend upon the 'improvement
of Natural Knowledge'-that is, upon the more complete
application of scientific knowledge and methods to every
department of industrial and national activity."