Science progress. 



LulLI8RARYJ^) 





No. i. March, 1894. Vol. I. 



PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND ITS CON- 

 NECTIONS. 



PROGRESS consists in the reconciling of apparent 

 contradictions. Unity and differentiation, heredity 

 and variability, are apparently opposed. Yet a mammal 

 is more truly a unit than an organism that suffers little 

 from being cut in two because each part can do the work 

 of all. A civilised state with interdependent specialised 

 interests suffers from the incapacity or rapacity of its 

 classes more than a company of Fuegans, each of whom 

 can supply all his own wants. Science is progressing in 

 this way. Biology cannot advance without chemistry, 

 geology leans on physics, and this interdependence is 

 due to specialisation, to differentiation. In organisms 

 and states intercommunication is essential to preserve 

 this corporate life. Without nerves and blood-vessels an 

 amoeba may possibly get on fairly well. Fuegans do 

 not require railways or telephones. Science requires its 

 blood-vessels and nerves, its railways and telephones. 

 Each member requires what is elaborated by others to be 

 collected and sorted and distributed for its use. It is 

 most important that' the work done in physical science 

 in innumerable laboratories should be collected, digested, 

 distributed for the information of the biologist, the chemist, 

 the geologist. The study of the properties of each kind 

 of matter as related to energy and the ether has bearings 

 on every department of science and on every kind of 



