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be considered a part, is still in its swaddling clothes ; but 

 the two articles by Professor Yerkes and Dr. Burrow give 

 an idea of future possibilities. 



I have put Professor Ames's article dealing with Ein- 

 stein's theory last on the list because in some ways it can 

 be regarded as a summation or a crystallization of all of 

 the sciences. In its conception of a-cosmos decidedly at 

 variance with anything yet conceived by any school of 

 philosophy, it will attract the attention of thinking men in 

 all countries. The scientist is immediately struck by the 

 way Einstein has utilized the various achievements in 

 physics and mathematics to build up a coordinated system 

 showing connecting links where heretofore none was per- 

 ceived. The philosopher is equally fascinated by a theory 

 which, in detail extremely complex, shows a singular 

 beauty of unity in design when viewed as a whole. The 

 revolutionary ideas propounded regarding time and space, 

 the brilliant way in which the most universal property of 

 matter, gravitation, is for the first time linked up with 

 other properties of matter, and above all, the experimental 

 confirmation of several of his more startling predictions 

 always the finest test of scientific merit stamp Einstein 

 as one of those super-men who from time to time are sent 

 to give us a peep into the beyond. 



