THE STUDY OF LIVING ANIMALS 



offense than that his researches showed that 

 man has an equal number of ribs on either side, 

 to Charles Darwin, whose offense lay in dem- 

 onstrating the kinship of all animals, a large 

 measure of contemporaneous contumely has 

 been their lot. In the words of John Dewey, 

 ''Scientific inquiry has been the chief instru- 

 mentality in bringing man from barbarism to 

 civilization, from darkness to light ; while it has 

 incurred, at every step, determined opposition 

 from the powers of ignorance, misunderstand- 

 ing and jealousy." 



Even yet we fail to appreciate the value of 

 the study of the biologic sciences; and I have 

 no hesitation in declaring that future genera- 

 tions will look back upon the pedagogic poli- 

 cies of this period with pitying wonderment. 

 If there is educational culture to be gotten 

 from studying the crimes and intrigues of po- 

 tentates, there is also benefit to be derived from 

 studying the battles of the leucocytes with in- 

 vading bacterial hosts; if we must learn the 

 origin and course of the Ganges and the Dan- 

 ube, so also may we with cultural profit study 

 that of the great blood and lymph channels of 

 our own personal dominions ; if the moods and 



tenses of the Greek are indispensable to the 

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Failure to 

 appreciate 

 its value. 



