SCIENCE 



Feidat, July 14, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 James as a Philosopher: Professor Josiah 

 EOYCE : 33 



Howell's Relief Maps and the Naturalistic 

 Land Model : G. C. Curtis 45 



A Fund for Public School Betterment in 

 Pittsburgh 47 



Honorary Members of the American Physical 

 Education Association 47 



Scientific Notes and News 48 



University and Educational News 50 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Concerning the N ematocysts of Microstoma : 

 De. Otto C. Glasee. Double Mutants in 

 Silkworms: Dk. W. J. Spillman. Exploded 

 Theories and Theological Prejudices: Peo- 



PESSOR G. rEEDERICK WEIGHT 51 



Quotations : — 

 The President and the Food and Drugs Act 53 



Scientific Journals and Articles 53 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Ditmars's Beptiles of the World: Peoeessor 

 Alexander G. Euthven. Shante on Nat- 

 ural Vegetation: Peopessor Pebdeeic E. 

 Clements. Von Kirchner on Blumen und 

 InseMen : Professor W. M. Wheeler ... 54 



A New Specific Gravity Balance: Pro- 

 fessor Austin P. Eogees. What caused 

 the Drumlins? Colonel John Millis. The 

 Belation between Photosynthesis of Carbon 

 Dioxide and Nitrate Seduction: Heeman 

 A. Spoehr 58 



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JAMES AS A PHILOSOPHER'- 

 Fifty years since, if competent judges 

 were asked to name the American think- 

 ers from whom there had come novel and 

 notable and typical contributions fo gen- 

 eral philosophy, they could in reply men- 

 tion only two men — Jonathan Edwards 

 and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For the con- 

 ditions that determine a fair answer to 

 the question, "Who are your representa- 

 tive American philosophers?" are obvious. 

 The philosopher who can fitly represent 

 the contribution of his nation to the 

 world's treasury, of philosophical ideas, 

 must first be one who thinks for him- 

 self, fruitfully, with true independence, 

 and with successful inventiveness, about 

 problems of philosophy. And, secondly, 

 he must be a man who gives utterance 

 to philosophical ideas which are charac- 

 teristic of some stage and of some as- 

 pect of the spiritual life of his own 

 people. In Edwards and in Emerson, and 

 only in these men, had these two con- 

 ditions found their fulfilment, so far 

 as our American civilization had yet ex- 

 pressed itself in the years that had pre- 

 ceded our civil war. Edwards, in his 

 day, made articulate some of the great 

 interests that had moulded our early 

 religious life. The thoughts which he 

 most discussed were indeed, in a sense, 

 old, since they largely concerned a tra- 

 ditional theology. Yet both in theology 

 and general philosophy, Edwards was an 

 originator. For he actually rediscovered 

 some of the world's profoundest ideas 



" Oration delivered on June 29 at the annual 

 exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta 

 Kappa. 



