An Introduction to a Biology 



which we, here, have fortunately no direct concern. Our 

 business in life is to find things out, and we do not look 

 beyond." 



With regard to this utilitarianism, Dr. Reid appears 

 to us to steer the right course in his book, except perhaps 

 that he sails rather too near it when, pointing out that a 

 classical education is inefficient and does not make us like 

 the Greeks and Romans, he says, " the true modern repre- 

 sentatives of the great Pagans are not to be found in college 

 halls or country parsonages, but in thinkers and workers 

 like Darwin, Huxley, Kelvin, Cecil Rhodes, the strenuous 

 men who rule Egypt and India. . . ."' 



Surely the patient inquiring spirit which prompts a man 

 to devote himself to classics is the same as that in the heart 

 of the true man of science. [One of the greatest steps for- 

 ward in the study of heredity itself was made by a monk?) 



[From a lecture delivered at the Graduate School of 

 Agriculture, Columbia University, Columbia, Missouri, July, 

 1914.] 



. . . There are two essentially different ways in which 

 such a subject as Genetics may be presented. One may 

 either deal with the* finished products of investigation ; or 

 one may fix one's attention on the machinery of investiga- 

 tion. These two methods can, of course, never be used abso- 

 lutely separately ; like all opposite things, each must con- 

 tain something of the other matter a little of spirit and 

 spirit a little of matter, good a little of bad and bad a little 

 of good. But the reason that in theory each should contain 

 the other is that no sane man could be interested in the 

 products of investigation unless he had previously satisfied 

 himself that the machinery of investigation, by means of 

 which those products had been turned out, is sound in con- 

 struction ; and, on the other hand, I think you will agree 

 with me that the pure philosopher is not the man to over- 



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