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Faraday and of the gentle Dalton are util- 

 ized to the full, and to their several nations 

 scientific men render this service freely, if 

 not gladly. That the mental attitude en- 

 gendered by science is apt to lead to a gross 

 materialism is a vulgar error. Scientific 

 men, in mufti or in uniform, are not more 

 brutal than their fellows, and the utilization 

 of their discoveries in warfare should not be 

 a greater reproach to them than is our joy- 

 ous acceptance of their success. 



What a change of heart after the appall- 

 ing experience of the first gassing in 1915 ! 

 Nothing more piteously horrible than the 

 sufferings of the victims has ever been seen 

 in warfare. 1 Surely we could not sink to 

 such barbarity ! Is thy servant a dog ? But 

 martial expediency soon compelled the 

 Allies to enlist the resources of chemistry; 

 the instruction of our enemies was soon 

 bettered , and before the Armistice there were 



1 I am sorry to have seen Sargent's picture "Gassed " in this 

 year's Academy. It haunts the mind like a nightmare. 



