I:NCK AND M \ \ 



The men who liau- most profoundly influenced the 

 world from ' .tually sought 



."i of ing career, 



uly renounced timing .MIL l>;.r.\in lives apart from 

 ili* bustle of tin* uoii.i in i, Mayer 



and Joni- in nnobtrusi\c retirement with the 



weigh ientilic questions. T 



mofiu- po\v.-r in tin- world which no man. he ntilie 



.-indent or otherwise, can afford ii indilTe 



and that is, tin- cultivation of right relations \\ ith his 

 fellow-men the performance of .M isolated 



individual, hut as a member of society. It is duty in tiiis 

 aspect, overcoming alike the si : '.^ihle dan'gcr and 



sire for repose, that has placed UK* in y<>m pieaeuce 

 to-night. 



To look at his picture as a whole, a painter requires 



noej and to judge of the total scientific acliu-u-nu-ui 



of any age, the standpoint <>f a MI*-, ,,-. iing age is desirable. 



\\ ' mav, however, transport ourselves in idea into the 



future, and thus survey with more or less completeness the 



science of our time. We sometimes hear it decried, and 



contrasted to its disadvantage with the science of other 



1 do not think that this will be the \vrdiei <,f 



ty. 1 think, on the contrary, that posted!;. 



knowledge that in the history of science n. higher 



samples ot intellectual conquest are recorded than those 



which this age has made its own. One of the most salient 



of these I propose, with your permission, to make the 



subject of our consideration during the coming hour. 



It is now generally admitted that the man of to-day is 



the child and product of incalculable antecedent, time. 



:.\>ical and intellectual textures have been woven for 



him during his passage through nhancs of histor\ 



form A Inch lead the mind hack to an abysmal 



past. One of the qualities which he has derived from that 



yearning to lei in the light of principles on the 



bewildering llux of phenomena. 1I-- 



descn nan Luhtenberg as "das rastloso 



Ursachenthier "the restless cause seeking animal in 



u h<. in facts excite a kind of hunger to know the sources 



from uhich they spring. N .eniure to say, in the 



history of the world has this longing I- .-rally 



: to, both among men of science and the general 



