332 PROGRESS OF SCIENCE IN THE CENTURY. 



pose it With this, though it is difficult to select 

 names, the work of Dujardin, Von Mohl, and Max 

 Schultze may be associated. 



This outline is based on the luminous but exceed- 

 ingly short paper by Professor Patrick Geddes 

 already referred to, and a fuller exposition will be 

 found in the writer's Science of Life (1899). A 

 diagrammatic summary may be useful 



It should be carefully noted that each step in 

 analysis mnkes a corresponding step of cynthetic re- 

 interpretation possible. But the reconstructive proc- 

 ess always lags far behind that of analysis. 



In studying structure (morphology) the methods 

 are observation, analysis, and comparison. We 

 begin with external form and symmetry, always har- 

 monious and beautiful in a natural wild animal. 

 We work with the scalpel till we see the creature 

 through and through as if it were transparent; we 

 persevere till we see it as a great city usually far 

 excelling any city of ours with regions which we 

 call organs, streets which we call tissues, houses 



