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tific departments worthy of the name to the older institutions of 

 learning, and in the establishment of new institutions wholly de- 

 voted to science. 



Such beneficent use of private wealth, the unparalleled increase 

 of which during the last fifty years has become a matter of grave 

 concern to the whole body politic, docs more than anytliing else can 

 do to reconcile the public to the conditions which make such accu- 

 mulations possible. Still more significant is the policy which the 

 General Government entered upon, forty years ago, of establishing, 

 in conjunction with the several States, schools of general and ap- 

 plied science. The State colleges and universities thus founded 

 have already become potent factors in American education, and 

 science lies at the heart of them all. It would be hard to over- 

 rate their influence on the development of science for time to come. 



When the American Association was established, fifty years ago, 

 a new day was breaking on the world. The men who were culti- 

 vating science then saw something of the conquests over Nature 

 that the new method — the method of science — rendered possible. 

 They were wise in demanding that all who use this method sliould 

 recognize the common bond. The association was the outcome of 

 that demand. 



At the end of the century we who have shared in the mighty 

 advance and who have been taught by our experience to discard 

 limitations in the possibilities of the future, feel the same and an 

 even more urgent need of some unifying and interpreting agency 

 for the ever-widening fields to which the method of science is now 

 applied. 



EACE QUESTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By FERDINAND BLUMENTKITTE. 



\ \7"TiEN I published my article on the History of Separatism in 

 ' V the Spanish colonies, in the Deutsche Rundschau for July, 

 1898, I said that the colored peoples of a colony would always be 

 inclined to struggle for the independence of their native country, 

 because the rule of the mother country of the colony makes their 

 access to the highest positions in the state impossible, I declared, 

 further, that in the Philippine Islands the contempt manifested 

 toward the colored tribes by the Spanish press had contributed 

 very much toward making the gulf between rulers and ruled pro- 

 gressively deeper and harder to bridge. The natural conceit and 

 sensitiveness of the colored races in America could never weigh as 

 heavy in the scale as those of the colored Eilipinos do, because 



