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work without the anticipation of spoils; but for this I 

 was more than compensated by the friendship of younger 

 men who are likely to have far more to do with our 

 future political development than will the old race of 

 politicians, and, chief among these young men, Mr. 

 Theodore Roosevelt. I was also drawn off to other 

 subjects, making addresses at various universities on 

 points which seemed to me of importance, the most suc 

 cessful of all being one given at Yale, upon the thirtieth 

 anniversary of my class, entitled, &quot;The Message of the 

 Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth. &quot; It was an en 

 deavor to strengthen the hands of those who were laboring 

 to maintain the proper balance between the humanities 

 and technical studies. To the latter I had indeed devoted 

 many years of my life, but the time had arrived when the 

 other side seemed to demand attention. This address, 

 though the result of much preliminary meditation, was 

 dictated in all the hurry and worry of a Cornell com 

 mencement week and given in the Yale chapel the week 

 following. Probably nothing which I have ever done, save 

 perhaps the tractate on &quot;Paper Money Inflation in 

 France, received such immediate and wide-spread recog 

 nition: it was circulated very extensively in the New 

 York i Independent, then in the form of a pamphlet, for 

 which there was large demand, and finally, still more 

 widely, in a cheap form. 



Elsewhere in these reminiscences I have given an ac 

 count of the evolution of my &quot;History of the Warfare 

 of Science with Theology. It was growing in my mind 

 for about twenty years, and my main reading, even for 

 my different courses of lectures, had more or less con 

 nection with it. First given as a lecture, it was then ex 

 tended into a little book which grew, in the shape of new 

 chapters, into much larger final form. It was written 

 mainly at Cornell University, but several of its chapters 

 in other parts of the world, one being almost wholly pre 

 pared on the Nile, at Athens, and at Munich ; another at 

 St. Petersburg and during a journey in the Scandinavian 



