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common weal, and that its views in all such matters should be so voiced as to 

 carry the influence such combined wisdom and experience merits. I believe, then, 

 that as individuals, and as an associate body, we owe a definite duty to the State 

 in the wise fostering of all efforts to increase the amount and improve the quality 

 of the science work in our secondary schools. It may be urged that all of this is 

 beyond the province of this body. As I conceive the province of science, how- 

 ever, such duties as I have indicated seem the most natural and forceful way of 

 showing, even to the veriest gradgrind, the very close and eminently practical 

 relationship existing between science and the State. 



All I have said implies that the scientist recognizes himself as a loyal citizen 

 of the State in which he works, and that he is as jealous of her honor, as careful 

 for her prosperity, as watchful over her interests as the man who edits a news- 

 paper, who practices law or runs for office. But where the monastic idea prevails, 

 where the laboratory so absorbs that he loses sight of his citizenship, he is derelict 

 in duty and discredits science. 



On the other hand, the State, through her legislators, m<iy be said to owe cer- 

 tain duties to science. One of the most patent of these is official recognition of 

 the value of scientific work to the State. From the days of the New Harmony 

 Settlement, when Indiana was the Mecca of all the Scientists of the land, when 

 the Owens and Say and Lesquereux and others were not only revealing the 

 natural wealth of the virgin State, but were adding lustre to her intellectual 

 record, down to the present time has science and the scientist done much for the 

 State. The exploitation of our coals, of our stone quarries, of our clays, of our 

 forest resources, with the development of the industries dependent upon them^ 

 has been based directly upon the work of the scientist. As the result of the study 

 of farm products, of plant and animal diseases and their remedies, of soils and 

 fertilizers, thousands of dollars annually have either been saved to the State or 

 added directly to its wealth. In manifold ways, without withholding, has science 

 given largely and liberally to the State. It would seem but a natural thing in 

 view of such a record for the State to assume that science still had something in 

 store for her; to assume that when she spoke her utterances would have value. 

 It would seem but a just thing when the scientists of the State are associated to- 

 gether and have organized definitely for an increase of knowledge of the resources 

 of the State to at least provide for the publication of this knowledge. It would 

 seem to be the high-water mark of practicality as well as economy to secure some- 

 thing for nothing. The worker has the satisfaction of work well done, the State 

 all the results of his labor. 



