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  ANNUAL, 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  Beethoven, 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  Bible, 
  are 
  to 
  the 
  finer 
  departments 
  of 
  

   the 
  mind 
  such 
  also 
  and 
  quite 
  as 
  wholesome 
  in 
  their 
  influence 
  on 
  pri- 
  

   vate 
  life 
  and 
  public 
  conduct 
  are 
  those 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  atoms, 
  the 
  uni- 
  

   verse, 
  and 
  the 
  march 
  of 
  life, 
  which 
  form 
  science. 
  

  

  An 
  investment 
  in 
  science 
  is 
  as 
  sure 
  as 
  a 
  United 
  States 
  bond. 
  All 
  

   history, 
  and 
  especially 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  our 
  own 
  time, 
  proves 
  it. 
  If 
  a 
  

   man 
  of 
  millions 
  coming 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  time 
  when 
  he 
  should 
  put 
  his 
  house 
  

   in 
  order 
  for 
  his 
  departure 
  is 
  so 
  clannish 
  as 
  to 
  wish 
  to 
  give 
  all 
  to 
  his 
  

   heirs, 
  caring 
  nothing 
  for 
  any 
  other 
  living 
  beings 
  in 
  this 
  world 
  and 
  

   not 
  even 
  regarding 
  a 
  monument 
  to 
  himself, 
  he 
  would 
  accomplish 
  his 
  

   purpose 
  more 
  completely 
  by 
  investing 
  5 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  his 
  fortune 
  to 
  

   promote 
  scientific 
  research. 
  For 
  his 
  descendants 
  will 
  suffer 
  cancers 
  

   and 
  will 
  desire 
  luxuries 
  like 
  other 
  men. 
  The 
  only 
  way 
  that 
  those 
  

   pangs 
  may 
  be 
  avoided 
  and 
  those 
  desires 
  gratified 
  is 
  by 
  the 
  making 
  

   and 
  utilization 
  of 
  scientific 
  discoveries. 
  If 
  means 
  are 
  provided, 
  such 
  

   discoveries 
  will 
  be 
  made 
  and 
  applied. 
  The 
  past 
  proves 
  it. 
  No 
  gift 
  

   of 
  prophecy 
  is 
  needed 
  to 
  know 
  that 
  the 
  future 
  progress 
  of 
  knowledge 
  

   will 
  benefit 
  both 
  rich 
  and 
  poor. 
  

  

  Science 
  should 
  be 
  supported, 
  but 
  by 
  whom, 
  and 
  to 
  whom 
  should 
  

   the 
  wealth 
  flow 
  to 
  promote 
  it? 
  President 
  Harding's 
  message 
  shows 
  

   that 
  for 
  the 
  present 
  Federal 
  support 
  is 
  scanty, 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  future 
  un- 
  

   certain. 
  The 
  State 
  governments 
  differ 
  in 
  their 
  liberality, 
  but 
  on 
  the 
  

   whole, 
  like 
  the 
  Nation, 
  so 
  the 
  States. 
  There 
  are 
  the 
  universities 
  and 
  

   schools 
  of 
  higher 
  learning 
  whose 
  scientific 
  output 
  is 
  inspiring. 
  But 
  

   listen 
  to 
  the 
  general 
  cry 
  from 
  them 
  ! 
  Enormous 
  enrollment, 
  pinching 
  

   salaries, 
  time 
  and 
  energy 
  consumed 
  in 
  teaching. 
  They 
  can 
  do 
  little 
  

   more 
  without 
  endowments 
  specifically 
  given 
  them 
  for 
  research 
  pur- 
  

   poses. 
  They 
  can 
  not 
  devote 
  more 
  of 
  their 
  present 
  means 
  to 
  scientific 
  

   experiments, 
  though 
  they 
  might 
  employ 
  additional 
  sums 
  highly 
  

   creditably 
  if 
  such 
  were 
  intrusted 
  to 
  them. 
  Then 
  there 
  are 
  the 
  great 
  

   manufacturing 
  corporations. 
  All 
  the 
  more 
  enlightened 
  of 
  them 
  main- 
  

   tain 
  now 
  scientific 
  laboratories, 
  but 
  primarily 
  they 
  are 
  carried 
  on 
  for 
  

   utilitarian 
  ends 
  closely 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  problems 
  of 
  manufacture, 
  

   and 
  the 
  results 
  are 
  apt 
  to 
  be 
  withheld 
  in 
  part 
  from 
  public 
  knowledge. 
  

   One 
  is 
  not 
  aware 
  that 
  a 
  single 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  organizations 
  promotes, 
  

   for 
  example, 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  mathematics, 
  although 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  make 
  

   use 
  of 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  tool, 
  and 
  without 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  mathematics 
  beyond 
  

   its 
  present 
  attainments 
  the 
  more 
  profound 
  engineering 
  problems 
  of 
  

   the 
  future 
  will 
  lack 
  means 
  of 
  solution. 
  

  

  In 
  short, 
  research 
  with 
  the 
  universities, 
  colleges, 
  and 
  corporations 
  

   is 
  a 
  secondary 
  by-product, 
  associated 
  in 
  the 
  former 
  with 
  teaching, 
  

   in 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  manufacturing. 
  The 
  professors 
  may 
  have 
  the 
  

   spirit 
  inclined 
  to 
  seek 
  knowledge 
  wherever 
  it 
  leads, 
  but 
  they 
  lack 
  the 
  

   opportunity. 
  The 
  corporation 
  employees 
  drive 
  knowledge 
  where 
  

  

  