96 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



eye a future world power of which this region shall be the seat. If 

 such is to be the outcome of the institutions which we are now building 

 up, then may your present visit be a blessing both to your posterity 

 and ours, by making that power one for good to all mankind. Your 

 deliberation will help to demonstrate to us and to the world at large 

 that the reign of law must supplant that of brute force in the relations 

 of the nations, just as it has supplanted it in the relations of individ- 

 uals. You will help to show that the war which science is now waging 

 against the sources of disease, pain and misery offers an even nobler 

 field for the exercise of heroic qualities than can that of battle. We 

 hope that when, after your all too fleeting sojourn in our midst, you 

 return to your own shores, you will long feel the influence of the new 

 air you have breathed in an infusion of increased vigor in pursuing 

 your varied labors. And if a new impetus is thus given to the great 

 intellectual movement of the past century, resulting not only in pro- 

 moting the unification of knowledge, but in widening its field through 

 new combinations of effort on the part of its votaries, the projectors, 

 organizers and supporters of this Congress of Arts and Science will be 

 justified of their labors. 



