The Meaning of Science 5 



standing of the common things about us. Thunder and lightning 

 and unusual signs in the skies would frighten us. Nature itself 

 would seem to be hostile, fighting against us. Yet this was the life 

 of early man. 



Progress from that age to the present has been made slowly, 

 step by step. Probably there would have been little progress at 

 all in the world if each generation had had to discover over again 



Brown Brothers. 



LIFE IN THE SCIENTIFIC AGE 



the things which the previous generation had learned by ex- 

 perience. Fortunately, early discoveries could be passed on to 

 those who came after, and so each new generation added something 

 to the gathering store of knowledge. 



At first knowledge was passed on uncertainly and often 

 inaccurately by word of mouth. Only when writing was invented 

 did general knowledge begin to grow and spread. It spread far 



