XXXVIII PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
dential addresses usually follow, and instead of proceeding at once 
to eulogize the scientific mind and to recapitulate the wonderful 
results it has produced, let us consider the unscientific mind a little, 
not in a spirit of lofty condescension and. ill-disguised contempt, 
but sympathetically, and from the best side that we can find. As 
this is the kind of mind which most of us share with our neighbors, 
to a greater or less degree, it may be as well not to take too gloomy 
a view of it. In the first place, the men with unscientific minds 
form the immense majority of the human race. 
Our associations, habits, customs, laws, occupations, and pleasures 
are, if the main, suited to these unscientific minds; whose enjoyment 
of social intercourse, of the every-day occurrences of life, of fiction, 
of art, poetry, and the drama is, perhaps, none the less because 
they give and accept opinions without subjecting them to rigid 
tests. It is because there are a goodly number of men who do this 
that the sermons of clergymen, the advice of lawyers, and the pre- 
scriptions of physicians have a market value. This unscientific 
public has its uses. We can at least claim that we furnish the ma- 
terials for the truly scientific mind to work with and upon; it is out 
of this undifferentiated mass that the scientific mind supposes itself 
to be developed by specialization, and from it that it obtains the 
means of its own existence. The man with the unscientific mind, 
who amuses himself with business enterprises, and who does not 
care in the least about ohms or pangenesis, may, nevertheless, be a 
man who does as much good in the world, is as valuable a citizen, 
and as pleasant a companion as some of the men of scientific minds 
with whom we are acquainted. . 
And in this connection I venture to express my sympathy for two 
classes of men who have in all ages been generally condemned and 
scorned by others, namely, rich men and those who want to be rich. 
I do not know that they need the sympathy, for our wealthy citi- 
zens appear to support with much equanimity the disapprobation 
with which they are visited by lecturers and writers—a condemna- 
tion which seems in all ages to have been bestowed on those who 
have by those who have not. 
So far as those who actually are rich are concerned, we may, I 
suppose, admit that a few of them—those who furnish the money to 
endow universities and professorships, to build laboratories, or to 
furnish in other ways the means of support to scientific men—are 
not wholly bad. Then, also, it is not always a man’s own fault that 
