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But the duty of science to the State does not cease with the discovery of 

 truth. It extends to its dissemination in a fairly intelligible language, with suf- 

 ficient suggestions as to its relations to make it practically useful. In this matter, 

 too, I claim that science has neglected manifest duty to her own injury. Either we 

 have been held back by modesty, not usually considered an attribute of scientists, 

 and refrained from publication, or we have sought publication in some journal of 

 high rank in our own lineof work, butof extremely limited circulation. When forced 

 by occasion to use other media for relieving intellectual congestion, the articles so 

 bristle with technicalities and multiplied allusions to (Terman and French and 

 Russian and Italian authorities that the hopeful neophyte turns pale and the raaa 

 of affairs, eager to see what science has in store for him, turns away in disgust. 

 As a rule, when called upon for a popular presentation, a primer style is adopted, 

 from which an intelligent public turns with eijual disgust. That the statements 

 of science in certain presentations must have technical precision no one ques- 

 tions, and these presentations have their place in technical journals; but surely,, 

 after the technical language has been stripped off, and the curves of this and that 

 and the other have been eliminated; when the foot-notes have all been dropped 

 and the ready familiarity of the author with all languages lost sight of, there 

 should be some small residuum of truth capable of interpretation into every-day 

 language. It is this residuum of truth, clearly put, with relations definitely 

 stated, that science should disseminate. It is this that will give standing and 

 credit among the people, and until such credit is gained scientists will find them- 

 selves hampered at every turn by the wearisome iteration, impractical — theoret- 

 ical. It is this dissemination of a true science in a popular, not puerile form, 

 that is needed above all things. It is needed that our citizens may have a 

 knowledge of all that class of facts which intimately concern their daily life, 

 that they may know the limitations nature has placed about their efforts — may 

 know the possibilities she opens before them; that they may have awakened in 

 them the knowledge that through their efforts and observations new truths may 

 be discovered which will become the heritage of their children. I am convinced 

 that scientists have much to answer for because of this failure in duty. I am 

 equally convinced that they have been repaid doubly for all of ti»eir .sins of 

 omission, in the almost universal lack of appreciation of the character and im- 

 portance of their work. This accurate popularization of scientific truth is abso- 

 lutely necessary if our work as scientists and as an Academy is taken at its full 

 value. Did you ever think of it? Appropriations for proceedings of societies of 

 horticulture, of agriculture, of swine-hreeders, of chicken raisers, of bee-keepers, 

 of tile-makers, without question, but grave doubts as to the publication of the 

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