COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



few thousand years distant only, when the history of man became 

 the overwhehiiing fact in the history of hfe on this planet; and, 

 studying, we see strange analogies in the phenomena of life and 

 death, of birth, growth, and change. 



" It is this study which has given science its present-day prom- 

 inence. In the world of intellect, doubtless the most marked fea- 

 tures in the history of the past century have been the extraordinary 

 advances in scientific knowledge and investigation and in the posi- 

 tion held by the men of science with reference to those engaged in 

 other pursuits. 



*' I am not novv' speaking of applied science — of the science, for 

 instance, which, having revolutionized transportation on the earth 

 and the water, is now on the brink of carrying it into the air ; of the 

 science that finds its expression in such extraordinary achievements 

 as the telephone and the telegraph ; of the sciences which have so 

 accelerated the velocity of movement in social and industrial condi- 

 tions — for the changes in the mechanical appliances of ordinary life 

 during the last three generations have been greater than in all tlie 

 preceding generations since history dawned. 



SCIENCE CONTROLLED BY CONDITIONS. 



" I Speak of the science which has no more direct bearing upon 

 the affairs of our every-day life than literature or music, painting 

 or sculpture, poetry or history. 



" Now I am willing that history shall be treated as a branch of 

 science, but only on condition that it also remains a branch of 

 literature; and, furthermore, I believe that as the field of science 

 encroaches on the field of literature, there should be a corresponding 

 encroachment of literature upon science ; and I hold lliat one of the 

 great needs, which can only be met by very able men whose culture is 

 broad enough to include literature as well as science, is the need of 

 books for scientific laymen. We need a literature of science which 

 shall be readable. 



" So far from doing away with the school of great historians, 

 the school of Polybius and Tacitus, Gibbon and Macaulay, we need 

 M. L. B. G. ** 



