SCIENCE: J. J. CARTY 15 



its Faradays who have devoted themselves to the quest for truth; 

 and the fruits of their endeavors when called to testify, could speak 

 as eloquently as these old magnets of the immense practical benefits 

 accruing to the world from what have often seemed to the un- 

 initiated to be trivial scientific investigations. 



If it were attempted to appraise the value of science in dollars 

 or to express it in amounts of taxable property, the figures would be 

 inconceivably large. But science can best be measured in terms 

 of human achievement, the mastery of the forces of nature, the 

 elimination of poverty and disease, the prolongation of life, the 

 advancement of learning, the growth of right living and sound 

 thinking, and of good understanding among men. 



I have now a message to deliver. Filled with courage and 

 promise and hope, it is addressed to all of those who labor and are 

 burdened with toil. It tells them that the possibilities of science 

 are boundless and that the resources of nature are without number. 

 They are asked no longer to interpret life as a struggle among men 

 for a limited store, where one man's gain must be another man's 

 loss. They are bidden to pay heed to the voice of the scientist and 

 under his leadership join with their fellowmen, all working together 

 in controlling and utilizing the bountiful forces of nature. 



They are told that they are pioneers in a new land. They are 

 asked to endure the temporary hardships of the present day as did 

 the early settlers in our own country, who were buoyed up with that 

 vision of vast natural resources which unfolded itself before their 

 eyes. They are told to look about them through the eyes of modern 

 science and they will see that they too are pioneers, and in a world 

 of wonders filled with boundless promise which will be realized by 

 their children and their children's children and all of their genera- 

 tions in increasing measure. 



Great as are the scientific accomplishments of our day, they are 

 smalt indeed compared to the possibilities of the future with which 

 Nature awaits the call of the scientist. Two centuries ago, Sir 

 Isaac Newton, the discoverer of the law of gravitation, who ranks 

 perhaps as the foremost scientist the world has had, expressed his 

 faith in the infinite possibilities of science in the following words : 



"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 

 and directing myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or 

 a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay 

 all undiscovered before me." 



