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products. This combined service in improving citizenship 

 and in increasing output, should be encouraged in every pos- 

 sible way. 



The mission of business needs no explanation in this pres- 

 ence. It lays hold of our material opportunities and makes 

 the most of them. In developing its own strength, it is in a 

 position to strengthen everything that contributes to the gen- 

 eral welfare. It should remember, however, that it is under- 

 girded by science; that it is the results of investigators that 

 bring the suggestions to practical men, who transform them 

 into the terms of public service. 



The mission of the State is to conserve and stimulate all 

 those agencies which make for strength and progress. It is 

 right that legitimate business shall be safeguarded and encour- 

 aged. It is fundamental that science shall be fostered, both 

 in its teaching phase and in its research phase, for it makes 

 for intelligent citizenship and material progress; and there is 

 no agency through which science in the state can be stimulated 

 so effectively as through the State Academy. It is here that 

 teachers and investigators meet, and from such meetings 

 teachers return to do better teaching, and investigators to do 

 better investigating. To maintain such an agency, therefore, 

 is one of the great opportunities of the state, for no invest- 

 ment will bring larger returns. 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 

 Ex-Governor W. A. North cott . 

 Springfield, 111. 



Things must be thought out before they are wrought out. 

 Science is the thought of things and art is the doing of things. 

 The architect first thinks out the great building that the artisan 

 afterwards creates. The sculptor first sees in the rough marble 

 the beautiful creation he afterwards gives to the world. The 

 battle is first thought out by the general before it is fought out 

 by the soldiers. The long-headed man, before the beginning 

 of a great undertaking, in his mind cancels all difficulties and 

 in the performance there is no wasted effort. Science is the 

 triumph of mind over matter. 



Science has made more rapid strides in the last one hundred 

 years than in all the world's preceding history. "Close be- 

 hind the worshipers of knowledge have followed the ma- 



