19043 Ostwald' s Activities 



International Relations I was asked to preside. After- 

 ward I met him several times in Washington and 

 London, as w^ll as at Stanford University, where he 

 once addressed our students. 



When Ostwald returned to America in 1913, he Tribute 

 visited Stanford as guest of our department of Chem- '° ^'°""^ 

 istry, and going about with me, asked to see the room 

 in which Professor Young (then absent) had carried 

 on some notable studies in chemical physics. A 

 scientist of the first rank, Ostwald was nevertheless ' 

 an idealist, almost a visionary. But though presi- 

 dent of the German Peace Society, his idea of peace 

 meant a world held in absolute order through the force 

 of German authority. As a vigorous opponent of the 

 German State Church, in 1913 he led in '' Aus der -out 

 Kirche," "Out of the Church," a movement which °f'^ 

 had a large following, especially among university ^^"'''^" 

 students. 



The duty assigned to me personally at the first or 

 general meeting of the Congress at St. Louis was to 

 lay out the relations of applied science to pure science 

 on the one hand and to human welfare on the other. 

 All the addresses were afterward published by the 

 commission in a series of large volumes which have 

 received less attention than they deserve. 



In the fall of 1904 I gave a number of lectures in fv, 

 Texas and elsewhere, and at Waco accepted a cordial ^° 

 invitation from Roosevelt to ride with him in his " ^'"" 

 private car as far as Austin, the capital city, where I 

 was next to speak. During the trip, while others of 

 his party were idling or playing cards, Roosevelt was 

 characteristically occupied with a French treatise on 

 political history, and adopted a rather pitying air 



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