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To make pi ogress we should keep alive our imagination and 

 cultivate its development in right directions, so that we may 

 take part in the forward march. 



In the words of Buckle, " The faculty of art is to change 

 events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena 

 with which we deal are controlled by art, they are predicted by 

 science." Following out this idea we should all cultivate a wide 

 outlook, rising above the necessary details and routine of cur 

 work, using all the aids of science to generalize and take the 

 broad view which will lift us and our professions to the high 

 place which thev rightlv should occupy in the community. 



Ruskin has summed up our petition well in his saying that 

 the work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and 

 demonstrations for impressions. " It is in so' doing that the 

 best course for improvement of our work in found. Science has 

 dene much for us, and will do much more if we give it the 

 opportunity. 



Our professions are great ones, of high importance in the com- 

 munity, and the more we can substitute facts for appearances, 

 and demonstrations for impressions, the more shall we rise towards 

 a position in that community commensurate with our opportunities 

 of service to it. 



We should never forget that: — as Bacon has put it — " every 

 one of us is a debtor to his profession." It should be our constant 

 aim to liquidate that debt — 



New times demand new measin-es and new men; 

 The world advances and in time outgrows 

 The laws that in our fathers' day were best, 

 And doubtless after us some purer scheme 

 Will be shaped out by wiser men than we — 

 Made wiser by the steady growth of truth. 



