THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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 The so-called " Liquid Fiee " used by the Germans in repulsing Attacks. 



time when war will be no part of this 

 morality and will no longer exist. 



Those who can not understand or do 

 not accept the argument that science 

 wiU ultimately control human conduct 

 must be convinced by the brute argu- 

 ment of accomplished fact that science 

 is essential to national efficiency. Ger- 

 many, against superior numbers, ad- 

 vances its lines in Poland and Russia 

 and holds them in Flanders and 

 France, it adjusts the nation to be self- 

 supporting and self-sufficient, because *t 

 has a better organization of science than 

 the other nations. Germany did not 

 spend so much per capita on its army 

 and navy as Great Britain or France, 

 but it spent more on science and re- 

 garded science more highly. It has 

 been stated that the British government 



at present employs 17 chemists, the Ger- 

 man government about 1,000. We hear 

 it said that Germany has developed an 

 efficient military machine by subordi- 

 nating the individual to discipline from 

 above. It is not less true that the 

 German university has been one cf 

 the most anarchic of institutions — both 

 students and professors having had free- 

 dom greater than they have in Ameri- 

 can universities — and at the present 

 moment Germany owes more to its uni- 

 versities as they have been conducted 

 in the past than to its army as it is now 

 organized. 



A complicated machine is not useful 

 in order to meet an emergency, but 

 rather the scientific attitude and the 

 scientific training which can react to 

 the new situation. A super dreadn aught 



