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As we now take up the work of this convention, which already gives sure 

 promise of being notable among the conventions that have called together men 

 of different nations, let us confidently assure ourselves that the great purpose 

 which has throughout controlled in the different stages of its organization will be 

 realized; that because the Congress has been held, the nations of the earth will 

 find themselves drawn more closely together; that human thought will possess 

 a more unified organization and human life a more unified expression. 



Following these addresses of welcome and of response came the 

 first paper of the specific programme, designed to be introductory to 

 the division, department, and section addresses of the week. This 

 address, which will be found in full in its proper place, on pages 135 to 

 147 of this volume, was given by Dr. Simon Newcomb, President of 

 the Congress and Chairman of the Organizing Committee, whose 

 labors for fifteen months were thus brought to a brilliant conclusion. 



At the close of Dr. Newcomb 's address the assembly was dismissed 

 by a few words of President Francis, in which he placed at the disposi- 

 tion of the members of the Congress the courtesies and privileges of 

 the Exposition, and expressed the hope and belief that their presence 

 and the purpose for which they were assembled, would be the crown- 

 ing glory of the Universal Exposition of 1904. 



On Tuesday, September 20, the seven division addresses and the 

 twenty-four department addresses were given, all the speakers being 

 Americans : Royce, in Normative Science; Wilson, in Historical 

 Science; Woodward, in Physical Science; Hall, in Mental Science; 

 Jordan, in Utilitarian Science; Lowell, in Social Regulation; and 

 Harris, in Social Culture, treating the main divisions of science and 

 their applications, each dwelling particularly on the scope of the great 

 field included in his address and the unification of the work therein. 

 The forty-eight department speakers divided the field of knowledge, 

 one address in each department giving the fundamental conceptions 

 and methods, the other the history and development of the work of 

 the department during the last century. 



With Wednesday the international participation began, and in the 

 one hundred twenty-eight sections into which the departments were 

 divided one half of the speakers were drawn, so far as circum- 

 stances permitted, from foreign scientific circles. With the exception 

 of the last two sections, Religious Influence Personal, and Religious 

 Influence Social, the work of the Congress closed on Saturday after- 

 noon. These two sections having four speakers each were placed, one 

 on Sunday morning and one on Sunday afternoon, in Festival Hall, 

 and passes to the grounds given upon application to any one desiring 

 to attend. Large numbers availed themselves of the privilege, and the 

 closing hours of the Congress were eminently suitable and worthy of 

 its high success. At the end of the afternoon session in Festival Hall, 

 Vice-President of the Congress, Dr. Albion W. Small, reviewed in a 

 few words the work of the week, its meaning to science, its possible 



