26 GENERAL BIOLOGY 



"Knowledge gained and verified by exact observation and correct 

 thinking, especially when methodically formulated and arranged in a 

 rational system." 



In other words, science means a gathering of facts, plus the logical 

 meanings or interpretations of these facts. 



The object or purpose of getting the principles which science thus 

 finds, is to control nature and to prophesy what will occur when given 

 acts are performed. 



As Biology is the science of life, everything that has anything what- 

 ever to do with life is really a branch of this science. For example, 

 Biology is not a branch of medicine or dentistry, but medicine and 

 dentistry are branches of biology where men enter into particular details 

 of some division of it. 



Biology, therefore, to the medical student, the dental student, the 

 law student, the student of sociology or the student of education, presents 

 a sort of bird's-eye view of every one of the fundamental processes upon 

 which his whole detailed study must be built, so that he can the better 

 and more understandingly read the valuable and meaningful literature 

 of the day and discuss intelligently the very basis on which his every 

 conclusion must rest its truth. In other words, it makes it possible for 

 the student the better to be able to prevent men who call themselves 

 experts, but who are not, from deceptively making people believe they 

 are. 



