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ADDRESSES 29 
You have now the reason for the statement that the scientific 
attitude of mind is trained common sense, and also for the 
claim that this service of science is related to the better equip- 
ment of the race for meeting its increasingly complex 
. problems. 
To summarize the whole situation: the service of science is, 
first to understand nature, that the boundaries of human 
knowledge may be extended, and man may live in an ever- 
widening perspective; second, to apply this knowledge to the 
service of man, that his life may be fuller of opportunity; and 
third, to use the method of science in training man, so that he 
may solve his problems and not be their victim. Such results 
suggest that science, through exploration, through practical 
service, and through education, is to be regarded as the most 
important factor in developing civilization. 
SCIENCE AND PATRIOTISM 
Joun C. Hessuer, JAMES MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY 
The business world may still adhere, in its formal corre- 
spondence, to the beginning of the Christian era as the year 1; 
the National Government may still date its documents as of 
such and such a year of the Independence of the United States; 
but the unconscious, yet none the less real starting point for 
this generation will be, for many a decade to come, “August of 
1914.” For in that fateful month and year the whole easy-going 
nation of us: business man, labor leader, religionist and. 
scientist and all of those who spoke glibly and dreamed idly of 
the “parliament of man and federation of the world” were 
pushed up against reality and saw the world as it is, not as we 
wish it to be. The sensation we had was like that of a friend 
of mine who parted some leaves along his path through a trop- 
ical jungle and looked into the face, not of a rare flower, but of 
a crouching jaguar. Of all the phases of reality that we saw 
in those August days none was so rude and abrupt as the 
bristling, brutal word “Kultur.” Since men heard that word, 
life for us has never been quite the same. It was laughable, if 
one could laugh when his heart (to misquote the poet Lowell) 
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“was going pittypat, when it wasn’t going ‘pity the Belgians’ ”, 
