Germany in Science 



By W. J. HOLLAND 



(Address delivered before The Hungry Club. Pittsburgh. 

 December Third, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen.) 



ciENCE is ordered knowledge. Reverently be it said, 

 the greatest scientist is the omniscient Author and 

 Preserver of all things. We, the creatures of a day, 

 are permitted to some extent to think His thoughts after Him. 



Human knowledge as it exists today represents a gradual 

 development. The science of the twentieth century is differ- 

 ent from the science of the first century, as that differed from 

 the science of the sixtieth century before our era. In com- 

 parison with the accumulated learning of the priests of Isis, 

 the accumulated learning of today differs as light differs from 

 darkness. 



The greatest advances in science have been made in the 

 last four centuries. The most rapid steps in the acquisition and 

 ordering of knowledge have been taken within the past one 

 hundred and fifty years. I will not now endeavor to point 

 out the reasons for this. 



There are many sciences. The divisions of science, using the 

 word in its most comprehensive sense, are determined by the 



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