PROGRESS IX DISCOVERY 357 



In 1816 Mrs. Isabella Gibbs discovered the Isabella grape, and this 

 discovery is said to have turned attention to the culture of American 

 grapes. Four years later Adlum discovered the Catawba. M A woman 

 discovered it growing wild," and we have a vigorous new blackberry, 

 the Blowers, added to the American list. Judge Logan discovers a 

 chance seedling, and the Loganberry is saved to the world. Mr. Bull 

 works a few years, and the Concord grape, and with it a new industry, 

 is added to American horticulture. Mendel works eight years in his 

 garden, and discovers his law of heredity. Jenner and Darwin each 

 work twenty years, and the ideas of vaccination and the origin of 

 species are placed at the service of mankind for all time. 



Importance. " One single idea may have more value than all 

 the labor of all the men, animals, and engines for a century." 

 Here are " mines," free to all alike, that dwarf our Kimber- 

 leys, Nomes, and Klondikes to the small change of the passing 

 hour, whose output is as much above gold and diamonds 

 as mind is higher than matter. What kind of progress shall 

 we make when all the people of the nation appreciate this 

 point of view and begin to " know enough to work together" 

 in pushing forward needed discoveries? 



We are approaching this degree of civic organization, as is 

 evidenced by the growth of research departments in our uni- 

 versities, by our experiment stations, and by the state and 

 national scientific departments and the endowed private re- 

 search foundations. All these are reaching down to search 

 out talent, and ought to be inspiring every boy and girl to the 

 most careful seeing and thinking of which they are capable. 

 It is often said that Pasteur repaid to France the entire 

 cost of her system of public education, from primary schools 

 to university and from the beginning down to his time, by 

 his one discovery of the cause and prevention of silkworm 

 disease. So, as such values are being appreciated, the country 

 and world are being searched for ability to discover. As its 

 discoveries are the most priceless possessions of the race, 

 and since advance in every field waits upon the discoverer 



