576 BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 



has been on the part of its votaries to narrow the field of 

 vision and to specialise the* subject of investigation, until 

 now the data available for the purposes of a general 

 advance are in danger of being left unused and ineffective 

 amid the constantly increasing accumulation of isolated 

 facts, due to the cultivation of specialism. 



Thus the special collections of these data in the hands 

 of specialists, the archives of societies and institutions, and 

 the great national museums and libraries of stored 

 knowledge, now constitute an incalculable mass of more 

 or less available and digested facts or material which 

 should be capable in the hands of men in touch with 

 the latest movements of research and discovery, of yield- 

 ing great formulative results, and of conducing to the 

 recognition of the laws by which the universe, in all its 

 recognised parts, is governed, as well as of showing the 

 details of its manner of working, so as to be systematised 

 and made of practical value in the affairs of human life 

 and work. 



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