ON THE RELATIONS OF SCIENCE 

 AND PROGRESS 



ALONG the southern shore of the Mediterranean, 

 near the mouth of the Nile, there is a slight inden- 

 tation partly enclosed by the island of Pharos. It 

 is an admirable harbor, and was known from an- 

 tiquity as Pirate's Bay. It had been, from the re- 

 motest ages, a refuge for the sea-rovers of Phoenicia, 

 and later those of Greece. 



Perhaps it was fitting that it was here, when 

 Alexander became master of the world, he decreed 

 the building of a city to bear his name. It was 

 planned much as was the "model town" of Pull- 

 man, near Chicago ; but it was to be a city, a cap- 

 ital, a world-capital, and it was built with a royal 

 disregard of cost. It was begun in the year 332 

 B.C. The most celebrated architect and engineer 

 of the time was Dinokrates, who had gained a high 

 reputation in rebuilding the Temple of Diana at 

 Ephesus; he was chosen not merely to lay it out, 

 but, so to speak, to design it, de toute ptice. Alex- 

 ander died, but the work was carried out as he 



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