694 SOCIAL SCIENCE 



"The Institute of Social Science" was opened at Chicago in 1903 

 by experts at the head of specialized agencies and institutions, 

 both public and private, assisted by teachers identified with 

 several universities. A four years' course has been established at the 

 University of Chicago in the new Department of Religious and 

 Social Science leading to an academic degree. At all these schools 

 the great centres at which they are located are used as laboratories 

 in which the students are assigned to carefully supervised and pro- 

 gressive field-work which constitutes a principal part of their 

 training. The appointment of a standing committee on training 

 for social work by the National Conference of Charities and Cor- 

 rection will greatly promote the progress, cooperation, and unity of 

 these courses. 



Perhaps more significant than all the tendencies of industrialism 

 which we have noted is that which sets irresistibly toward inter- 

 national relationships. Beneath the sinister influence which 

 commercial interests have had upon politics, there may be a larger 

 good evolving. But the very elements which have been creating 

 internal strife and provoking foreign wars may soon become so 

 international in their proportions as to be the chief impediment to 

 war and mainstay of the world's peace. Organized workingmen, who 

 were the first to frighten the world by ignoring national boundaries, 

 are, without the loss of their patriotism, naturally developing inter- 

 national unions out of their national organizations. These great 

 craft brotherhoods, by stretching hearts and hands across seas to 

 organize for their common interests across every frontier, bid fair, 

 by their refusal to fight each other, to command the world's peace. 

 Among the world's congresses convening at this Exposition, none 

 registers a higher- water mark of human progress than the " Inter- 

 parliamentary Union," with its three hundred delegates, representing 

 practically all the constitutional governments of the world. The 

 twelfth session of this union is immediately followed by the Thirteenth 

 International Peace Conference at B,oston, with a personnel and 

 prestige which more than keeps pace with the progress of war. 



With the possibility of this climax in sight, and in view of the pro- 

 found changes in social condition which it has already wrought, the 

 Industrial Revolution is making good its claim to be the most radical 

 transformation through which civilization has ever passed. 



