22 GREEK SCIENCE AND MODERN SCIENCE 



are but means to them. The historian of Science knows 

 better. It is precisely the processes that he seeks. He 

 /knows that the conclusions are but a temporal and 

 local accident. 



It has been said that the measure of advance of 

 a Science is the degree to which its conclusions are 

 susceptible of expression in mathematical form. But 

 there is another and perhaps a deeper and more con- 

 stant sense in which all Sciences must borrow from 

 mathematical method. It is in the record of processes. 

 Of nothing is it more true than of Science that the dead 

 govern the living. By the amount to which our pro- 

 cesses are clearly and succinctly recorded, by so much 

 do we ensure the permanence of our work, by so much 

 can we guarantee that our successors can begin where 

 we leave off. 



This truth can even be applied to the History of 

 /Science which is itself, as I would plead to you, an 

 independent Science. By the degree to which we give 

 our references and document our material, by the care 

 with which we edit our manuscripts and index our 

 investigations, by that degree will posterity be grateful 

 to us. 



It is, therefore, I submit to you, the distinctive hope 

 and glory of the Science of our age and I would 

 here use the word Science in its widest sense that it 

 will place in the hands of the inheritors of our civiliza- 

 tion and our thought, whoever they may be, an instru- 

 ment that will enable them to carry on our work, without 

 halt or pause, from the point at which we leave it. 



