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comparative psychology in which the primary forms of 

 human mentality may be compared with the psychologi- 

 cal processes discoverable in creatures at our feet; or, 

 philosophy finds exercise in the deep research of theoretic 

 chemistry or physics where atoms and ions are mar- 

 shaled, flitting to and fro in armies, myriads, all in a 

 world so real yet unseen save on the horizon of the intel- 

 lectual eye. Strange as it may seem, nothing so kindles 

 the imagination as physical research. Says Professor 

 Trowbridge, recently: " There is a path of human in- 

 quiry, which leads somewhere into the open, but that 

 path is into the world of the infinitely little. " But the 

 infinitely little we may never hope to see, or weigh, we 

 may realize it only in the realm of thought and it does 

 appear as if the constitution of the physical world were 

 yet to be seen, if seen at all, mirrored in the clear deeps 

 of the human soul. 



On the ethical side, sociology and all the various phases 

 of economic science have fairly filled the field, supplanted 

 even the ethics itself of a dozen years ago. But the con- 

 tribution on the part of science here in method, the 

 analogy in arrangement and presentation of fact, or the 

 derivation of general laws from instances established, 

 constitutes only the smallest part of the real obligation. 

 The great advance which all forms of social and histori- 

 cal study derive from modern scientific influence comes 

 from the changed point of view, a change as great or 

 even greater than that induced by Copernicus in the sci- 

 ence of his day, and in fact not unlike it. He shifted 

 the centre of the visible universe ; we, anthropocentric in 

 our conceit, who fancied ourselves in the centre of all 



