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Entered as second-class matter January 21, 1922, at the 



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Vol. lvi July 28, 1922 No. 1439 



CONTENTS 



The Humanizing of Knowledge: Dr. James 

 Hakvey Kobinson 89 



The Food Research Institute of Stanford 



100 



Seientifto Events: 



Canadian Society of Technical Agricul- 

 turists; Bishop Museum Fellowships; The 

 Hull Meeting of the British Association 102 



Scientific Notes and News 104 



University and Educational Notes 107 



Discussion and Correspondence : 



Filtered Air: Professor Alexander 

 McAdie. The Processing of Straw: Dr. 

 A. J. PiETERS. Does the Bihle Teach Evo- 

 lution: Dr. Charles V. Piper 108 



Scientific Books : 



JenTcins on the History of the Whale 

 Fisheries: Dr. F. A. Lucas 109 



Special Articles: 



Bacterial Pustule of Soy Bean: Florence 

 Hedges Ill 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. 

 Charles L. Parsons 112 



THE HUMANIZING OF KNOWL- 



EDGEi 



I 



Any most familiar object will suddenly turn 

 strange when we look it in the face. As we 

 repeat some common word or regard keenly the 

 features of an intimate friend they are no 

 longer what we took them to be. Were it not 

 for our almost unlimited capacity for taking 

 things for granted we should realize that we 

 are encompassed with countless mysteries which 

 might oppress our hearts beyond endurance did 

 not custom and incuriosity veil the depths of 

 our careless ignorance. That I am "I" to my- 

 self and "you" to all of you, who are each of 

 you "I" to yourself is on contemplation a per- 

 turbing circumstance. That the vibrations of 

 my vocal cords should stir ideas in you is no 

 easy matter to explain, and no one has yet been 

 able to tell us why we and the earth so iner- 

 rantly attract one another. But these can 

 hardly be called mysteries to most of our fellow 

 men, who are so inured to personality, speech 

 and weight that they are for them scarcely ob- 

 served commonplaces. 



Those to whom a commonplace appears to be 

 most extraordinary are very rare, but they are 

 very precious, since they and they alone have 

 made our minds. It is they who have through 

 hundreds of thousands of years gi'adually en- 

 riched human thought and widened the gap 

 that separates man from his animal congeners. 

 Without them the mind as we know it would 

 never have come into existence. They are the 

 creators of human intelligence. The mass of 

 mankind must perforce wait for some spe- 

 cially wide-eyed individual to point out to them 

 what they have hitherto accepted as a matter of 



1 Address before the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, meeting in conjunc- 

 tion with the Pacific Division in Salt Lake City, 

 June 23-24. 



