SCIENCE AND PHYSICAL 

 DEVELOPMENT 



C. H. DENVER, M.A., AND J. E. HAND 



THIS volume is a plea for the application to 

 public affairs of science, i.e. of systematic 

 and ordered knowledge, and the first department to 

 which such application is urged is that of the phy- 

 sical development of the people. But there is no 

 distinct branch of science which can claim this as 

 its own special sphere. The physical well-being of 

 the nation cannot be entrusted to any one class 

 of specialists. The aid of the medical man must 

 be invoked, but a general practitioner will not 

 suffice ; there is need of the dietetist, of the public 

 health officer, of the physiologist, the oculist, the 

 aurist, and others. Further, the help of a statis- 

 tician is needed, and an economist, and an educa- 

 tionist in fact, representatives of every department 

 of sociology. And when each man has given in 

 his specific scientific contribution, there will re- 

 main the difficult task of co-ordinating all this 

 knowledge so as to bring it to bear on the phy- 

 sical development of the race. 



However difficult such a task may be, it is abun- 

 dantly clear that the work badly needs doing 



