SCIENCE 



Friday, April 9, 1915 



CONTENTS 



The Deplorable Contrast between Intrana- 

 tional and International Ethics and the 

 Mission of Medical Science and Medical 

 Men: Dr. S. J. Meltzee 515 



Cyrus Fogg BracTcett: Propessoe W. F. 

 Magie 523 



Geographical Meeting in New Torlc 525 



The Pacific Association of Scientific Societies. 626 



Scientific Notes and News 526 



University and Educational News 531 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



On the Proposed Reorganisation of Depart- 

 ments of Clinical Medicine in the United 

 States: Dr. Graham Lusk. Letter from 

 Professor Ed. Claparede: M. Ed. ClaparSide. 531 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 MacBride's Text-hooTc of Emiryology: F. 

 E. L. Garrison's Introduction to the His- 

 tory of Medicine : Dr. Eoy L. Moodib .... 534 



The Nature and Origin of Fiords: Professor 

 Douglas W. Johnson 537 



Special Articles: — 



The Importance of a Consideration of the 

 Fiber Proteins in the Process of Bleaching 

 Cotton : B. S. Levine 543 



The American Phytopathological Society: Dr. 

 C. L. Shear 545 



The Philadelphia Meeting of the American 

 Psychological Association: Dr. Egbert M. 

 Ogden 547 



The Illinois Academy of Science: Professor 

 E. N. Tbanseau 549 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Botanical Society of WasHngton: Dk. 

 Perley Spaulding. The Biological Society 

 of Washington: M. W. Lyon, Jr. The 

 Anthropological Society of Washington: 

 Dr. Daniel Folkmae 550 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



TUE DEPLOEABLE CONTRAST BETWEEN 

 INTRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL 

 ETHICS AND THE MISSION OF MED- 

 ICAL SCIENCE AND MEDICAL MEm 



The chief aim of my remarks is to point 

 out the unique position which medical sci- 

 ences and medical men occupy in the hor- 

 rible war which is going on between civil- 

 ized nations. International morality may 

 possibly derive some permanent benefit 

 from a conscious knowledge of this posi- 

 tion. However, in order to make my point 

 clear, I shall introduce it by a discussion 

 of some aspects of ethics. 



Moral philosophy assumes for granted 

 that ethical relations of civilized men are 

 safely established ; it concerns itself merely 

 with the question regarding the nature of 

 the origin of ethical precepts. In general, 

 it may be admitted that the vast majority 

 of civilized men indeed do not question the 

 correctness of ethical demands. But 

 writers on moral philosophy fail to distin- 

 guish between intranational and interna- 

 tional ethics. Hence, we find frequently 

 that international occurrences are dis- 

 cussed from the point of view of intrana- 

 tional principles ; international occurrences 

 are brought before the forum of a supreme 

 court of the world for judgment, but the 

 merits and demerits of the cases are argued 

 from the point of view of ethics which ob- 

 tain in intranational moral relations. But 

 the truth is that there is an abyss between 

 the two domains of morality. 



Let us first look at the status of intrana- 

 tional morality. The ethical relations 



1 Address delivered at the annual diimer of Co- 

 lumbia University Bioehemical Assoeiation, March 

 26, 1915. 



