DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE IN INDIANA. 397 



Polytechnic Institute, head of the Division of Chemistry, Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, editor of 

 the American Chemical Journal: R. B. Warder, Professor of Chemistry, 

 Purdue: W. E. Stone, Professor of Chemistry and President, Purdue; Alex- 

 ander Smith, Professor of Chemistrj' at Wabash and in the University of 

 Chicago, Administrative Head of the Department of Chemistry, Columbia 

 University, President of the American Chemical Society. There may have 

 been, and probably were, others of whom I do not know or of whose work I 

 am not able to judge correctly. Certainly there are many others who, in 

 a somewhat less conspicuous way, exerted an equal or even greater influence 

 in shaping chemical thought during the thirty years following the civil war. 



In this brief paper I have tried to point out — especially to the younger 

 chemists — some of the recruiting stations, and some of the battle fields upon 

 which chemical freedom in Indiana was won. The wars of j'esterday have 

 but given strength and wisdom for the struggle tomorrow. These struggles 

 will not be against classicism or ignorance or superstition or the indifference 

 and opposition of the state. Its war now is and Avill be to establish correct 

 standards for the air we breathe; for the water we drink; for the food we eat, 

 for the medicines we need; for the drinks we enjoy; for the fuels we burn 

 and the minerals we mine; for the chemicals we manufacture; for the soil we 

 till, and for the dyes with which we beautify the world. The borders of 

 chemical science must be enlarged. Youth must be taught the value of 

 truth ; of the sacredness of natural law, and of the power of the mind trained 

 to habits of exact thought and logical deduction. In co-operation with the 

 classics and the other sciences, pure and applied, our science must attempt 

 to unfold the highest qualities of man — his intellectual, moral and religious 

 nature. 



