THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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are of direct scientific interest. Far 

 surpassing all the rest in this respect 

 is, however, the Congress of Arts and 

 Science, to which we have already 

 called attention. Ilistead of congresses 

 devoted to each special science, such as 

 have met in connection with other ex- 

 positions, one great congress has been 

 planned to represent the total accom- 

 plishment and unity of science. It is 



can speakers to be invited was com- 

 pleted. About 125 of the most eminent 

 foreign men of science and scholars 

 have accepted the invitation, and there 

 will doubtless be an equally cordial 

 response from Americans. Professor 

 Miinsterberg in an article on the con- 

 gress in The Journal of Philosophy 

 says : " Almost every one of these 

 European scholars has in his own field 



Simeon E. Baldwin, Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, New Haven, Conn., Vice-president 



for Social and Economic Science. 



easy to object to certain details of 

 classification and method; but it is evi- 

 dent that a large idea has been con- 

 ceived and is likely to be successfully 

 realized. The original plan is due to 

 Professor Hugo Miinsterberg. The mem- 

 bers of the committee visited Europe 

 during the summer to extend invita- 

 tions to foreign men of science, and at 

 St. Louis during the meeting of the 

 American Association the list of Ameri- 



brought about a certain synthesis of 

 widely separated elements of thought, 

 and has devoted not the smallest part 

 of his work to the fundamental con- 

 ceptions and methods of his science. 

 The addresses which they will deliver 

 thus lie essentially in the line of their 

 own best thought, and yet it is most 

 probable that the greater part of these 

 addresses would never have been writ- 

 ten had not the outer occasion of our 



