men whoi had spent their lives in the pursuit of truth — if, 

 I S;ay, I were asked to choose between euch a man and au 

 ape, I would — I would — %^ ell, I will leave it to the audience 

 tO' sav which I would choose." 



The true man of science, to quote Tyndall's words, 

 "spends his life in the arduous pursuit of truth." Were 

 I a sculptor and engaged to make a statue of Science, I 

 would produce a figure, open faced, with searching and 

 sympathetic eyes under an ample brow, the isynibol of 

 intellectual veracity. 



Not only haiS science taught us the method of reach- 

 ing the truth of the woi'ld in which we live, and through 

 which we realize ourselves, it hae put, and is putting, the 

 method to noble use in the service of life. Let me men- 

 tion some of its gifts : — 



(a) To begin, scientific history has opened for ue the 

 door of its chaanber and given us freedom of fellowship 

 with all past generations. Before modern science came 

 hiistory was mere chronology, and unsifted rumors. But 

 since the dawn oi the scientific method, we are "saved 

 from rumor's thousand tongues." Not only has chronol- 

 ogy been perfected, setting events in their true order; but, 

 what is of far more importance, these events have been 

 revealed in their relation of cause and effect. We are made 

 aware, not only ol a succession of events in the progress 

 of nations, but we have unfolded to us their hidden con- 

 nection. We see the racial, national, political and religious 

 currents which flowed from Greece to Rome, and from 

 Eome to Britain,, the United States and Canada. And 

 scientific history, by revealing the course of the river of 

 civilization in the past, enables us, in some measure, to 

 prophesy the direction in which it is tO' flow in the future. 

 And thus we have the seer who tells us what it is to be. 

 But he is the true fortune teller, for he knows that the 

 Siapling maples are a prophecy of the swaying branches of 

 our great maple forests. In other words, he has learned 

 the secret o| the modern historical student; that "coming 



