SCIENCE AND PROGRESS 



chanics ; in more concrete terms, to the working of 

 a machine. 



Meanwhile the scientific spirit will penetrate yet 

 deeper. The same methods which have taken from 

 us the childish and fantastic notions of our ances- 

 tors, and brought in their stead clear and rational 

 conceptions of this world, will help us further. They 

 will make possible the scientific organization of in- 

 dustry, of politics, of morals in brief, of the whole 

 scheme of our daily lives. 



In one great field the conquest is already com- 

 plete. We may now change the tense of Tyndall's 

 famous phrase and say: "Science has claimed, and 

 it has wrested from theology, the entire domain of 

 cosmological theory." There is not an intelligent 

 man on the whole wide earth who longer believes 

 that the Mosaic account of creation is true, or that 

 the world was created in the year 4004 B.C., or that 

 the sun stood still on Gibeon. We are past all that. 

 This is something. 



The scientific organization of industry, illustrated 

 in the great trusts, is going on under our eyes. It 

 should give no alarm. When the work is complete, 

 public utility will necessitate governmental control, 

 and from this to the complete unification of the 

 whole machinery of production and distribution 

 will be but a step. With this will come, too, the 

 disappearance of the leisure and parasitic class gen- 

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