MYSTERIES OF LIFE AND MIND 



The very attractive rewards, material and pub- 

 lic, especially potent in American life, have turned 

 away the current from study and research. As a 

 result, America has won no such place in the larger 

 spaces of positive knowledge as Germany, France, 

 and other lands. The brilliant example of what 

 a healthier spirit, as exemplified in the work of the 

 University of Chicago, may bring, should be help- 

 ful. There is no reason why the Darwins and Kel- 

 vins, the Berthelots and Virchows should be born 

 abroad. But the first condition is that a noisy 

 politician, or even a millionaire, shall not be set in 

 honor above the men who, through the slow ad- 

 vance of science, are helping to banish disease and 

 want and fear from out this earth, 

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