THE HIGHER USEFULNESS 

 OF SCIENCE 



KNOW THYSELF 



Interpreted by Socrates, Shakespeare, Harvey and 

 Modern Men* 



EVERY wise modern heeds the admonition, Know 

 Thou Thyself, no less religiously than did that 

 one of the Seven Sages who uttered it first. What do 

 the words mean to-day? We no longer post them over 

 the temple door of the Delphic oracle. But if we were 

 to inscribe them on any of our temples, which should 

 they be those of Religion, Art, Education, or Sci- 

 ence? Let my contribution to this festival week be a 

 plea for renewed devotion to this injunction, and for 

 the adoption of it in all our temples. 



* Given originally as one of four addresses which were parts of 

 a five-day Commemoration program of the Shakespeare Tercente- 

 nary and of Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, at 

 the University of Texas, April 22-26, 1916, and first published in 

 A Memorial Volume to Shakespeare and Harvey, by the Univer- 

 sity, as University of Texas Bulletin No. 1701, January 1, 1917. 



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