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of laboratories organized for work of this nature. Educational 

 institutions are also likely to recognize that science should play 

 a larger part in their curriculum, and that men skilled in re- 

 search should be developed in greatly increased numbers. The 

 enlarged appreciation of science by the public, the demand for 

 investigators in the industries, and the attitude of industrial 

 ^A leaders of wide vision toward fundamental science, should 

 facilitate attempts to secure the added endowments and equip- 

 ment required. 



On the whole, the outlook in America seems most encourag- 

 ing. But the great advance in science that thus appears to be 

 within reach cannot be attained without organized effort and 

 much hard work. On the one hand, the presenF inferest of 

 * the public in science must be developed and utilized to the full, 

 and on the other, the spirit. of cooperation that played so large 

 a part during the war must be applied to the lasting advantage 

 of science and research. Fortunately enough, this spirit has 

 not been confined within national boundaries. The harmony 

 of purpose and unity of effort displayed by the nations of the 

 Entente in the prosecution of the war have also drawn them 

 more closely together in science and research, with conse- 

 quences that are bound to prove fruitful in coming years. 



The Honorable Elihu Root, who combines the wide vision 

 of a great statesman with a keen appreciation of the importance 

 and methods of scientific research, has recently expressed him- 

 self as follows : 



Science has been arranging, classifying, methodizing, simplifying 

 everything except itself. It has made possible the tremendous 

 modern development of the power of organization which has so 

 multiplied the effective power of human effort as to make the 

 differences from the past seem to be of kind rather than of degree. 

 It has organized itself very imperfectly. Scientific men are only 

 recently realizing that the principles which apply to success on a 

 large scale in transportation and manufacture and general staff 

 work apply to them; that the difference between a mob and an 



