16 SCIENCE: J. J. CARTY 



All the wonderful scientific developments since the time of 

 Newton so strikingly confirm the vision of the great philosopher 

 expressed in the words just quoted, that I can predict with a feel- 

 ing of certainty that the discoveries of the future, if science is prop- 

 erly supported, will be enormously great in comparison to those of 

 our own time. I believe, indeed, that they will be so great that 

 the people of that coming day will look back upon our knowledge of 

 the forces of Nature as we now look back upon that of the North 

 American Indian who, cold and shivering, was ignorant of the coal 

 at his feet with its stores of warmth and power. 



For all of the benefits which she has conferred upon us, science 

 asks only that we provide her faithful workers with an opportunity 

 to multiply their efforts in our behalf. Pointing to the past, she 

 holds forth with certainty the promise of further great truths. She 

 tells us that from these truths the engineers and chemists, the physi- 

 cians and surgeons, the agriculturists and all the other applied 

 scientists trained in our universities, will develop without number 

 marvelous new agencies for the comfort and convenience of man 

 and for the alleviation of human suffering. 



