16 NATIONAL TRENDS IN BIOLOGY 



President Coolidge said not long ago : ''Everything that 

 flows from the application of trained intelligence and in- 

 vested capital is the result of brains. The man of trained 

 intelligence is a public asset. We go forward only through 

 the trained intelligence of individuals, but we, not the 

 individuals, are the beneficiaries of that trained intelli- 

 gence: in the very nature of things we cannot all have 

 the training, but we can all have the benefits." 



The great principles and fundamental laws which make 

 possible scientific progress can never exist through mere 

 labor, nor through the politician, but only through that 

 trained intelligence which can read the book of nature 

 correctly. Here, there is always something new and im- 

 portant for the discerning eye. 



Make a list of the contributions to the welfare of man, 

 and see how practically all were made by the so-called 

 upper and middle classes, or precisely those whom the 

 social revolutionist always wishes to destroy first, though 

 he owes everything to them, 



"One may recall that Lavoisier was guillotined by a 

 republic that had no need of chemists; that Priestley 

 was driven from his sacked and devastated home; that 

 LeBlanc, after giving the world cheap alkali, died in a 

 French poorhouse ; that Langley was crushed by ridicule 

 and chagrin in his last days. A month before the war, who 

 could have believed that within a few years the Fifth 

 Estate in Russia would be utterly destroyed, and that in 

 Germany and Austria it would exist at the very edge of 



