ADDRESS 



BY 



THE Reverend WILLIAM FLINT, D.D, 



PRESIDENT. 



RACE-CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SCIENTIFIC 



SPIRIT. 



That the scientific spirit can with advantage be applied to the 

 co^'^ideration of problems other than those which are merely 

 physical is evidenced by the development of research investiga- 

 tion in matters pertaining to race and nationality which grow out 

 of ideas rather than physical conditions. The study of race 

 questions necessitates making due allowance for such natural 

 facts as are connected with the human organism, its history and 

 its habitat, but psychological and ethical factors are found to 

 obtrude themselves so often that no adequate account can be 

 given of race-consciousness without allowing fully for the parts 

 pla^/ed by these. The facts concerning man cannot be so isolated 

 and submitted to the processes of the physical method as to 

 enable us to state " This is," " That is not,'' and to predict with 



