32 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



But the fact remains, the value of science lies in its relation to 

 human conduct. The value of knowledge lies in the use we can make 

 of it. As each thought of the mind tends to work itself out in action, 

 so does each accession of human knowledge find its end in fitting men 

 to live saner and stronger lives. We may, therefore, rest content with 

 the ideal of effectiveness. The American scholar is master of the 

 situation. He can make things go, because -he understands them and 

 because he understands himself. He does not shrink from that which 

 appals the men of culture. He is adequate for that which bewilders 

 the erudite. Judged by our best products, there is no finer man on 

 earth than the college man of America, and in proportion, in the 

 future, he will be wiser and more forceful than he is to-day. 



In mechanics we know that the force of a moving body is not 

 measured by its substance. Its momentum or effective power is found 

 in its weight multiplied by its speed. This illustration has been used 

 in praise of American science. The power of science lies not in indi- 

 vidual erudition. It lies in its striking power. American science is 

 dynamic, it is always under way. In every branch of science, the best 

 American workers have been those most strenuous in their personal 

 efforts, most eager to make their work useful to the world at large. In 

 almost every branch of utilitarian science, America already stands in 

 the lead. This fact England has already recognized with dignified 

 dismay. We hear much of it now, we shall hear more of it still later, 

 for cpiite as remarkable as the growth of American science is the ad- 

 vance of American schools. Whenever I visit a department of applied 

 science in America, I see that it has doubled its power, its staff and its 

 equipments since the time of my last visit. My visits are not very 

 frequent, perhaps once* in five or ten years, let us say, but what will be 

 the end of it? To double once in fifty years is a rare thing in the 

 universities of the old world, but even that in a few centuries would 

 accomplish wonders. 



It is one of the laws of mathematics that a geometric progression 

 will long outrun an arithmetical progression, whatever increases by 

 doubling will far exceed the hulk of addition. American science and sci- 

 entific schools increase by doubling, and will continue to do so. Hence 

 we measure them not by their actual achievements, hut by the certainty 

 id a greater future, far beyond the dreams of those who, like ourselves, 

 must be numbered always with the pioneers. To lay the Inundation of 

 science, the foundation of knowledge, the foundation of the future com- 



i iwealth of Colorado, is the work of the pioneer. Ours then is a 



glorious part, for the pioneer is a noble function indeed, but the actu- 

 ality for the future will surpass the brightest dreams of to-day. Le1 

 us glance at some of the varied thoughts this enterprise suggests. 



A hundred miles away at the foot of the same mountain range lies 



