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treatment of the subject of ' time.' Wundt 

 would propose that a special agent, called 

 a philosopher, should gather up all he can 

 from everybody and should present it as he 

 thiaks best. So with all the other funda- 

 mental questions. The result is that we 

 have as many systems of philosophy as we 

 have writers. "Would it not be better to 

 get the astronomer to present his experience 

 with time, then the physicist to present his, 

 then the psychologist, and so on? The 

 reader can then assimilate what he is able, 

 instead of accepting it as previously assimi- 

 lated by the philosopher, as a kind of ' pre- 

 digested' food. 



A somewhat similar thought was spoken 

 b}^ Paulsen some years ago. I do not know 

 if he has stated it in print. He considered 

 that the day of philosophical systems was 

 past ; there could be text-books of philos- 

 ophy as well as text-books of all sorts of 

 things, but philosophy itself would consist 

 of monographs by specialists. 



Of course, on such conditions as these, , 

 we should be obliged to conclude that phil- 

 osophy has no relation to the sciences and 

 that, having the astronomer, the mathema- 

 tician, the physicist, the geologist, the 

 psychologist, the economist and all the 

 others, we can entirely dispense with the 

 philosopher. 



e. w. sckiptuee. 



Yale Univeesity. 



' SCIENCE.' 

 [The following article, contributed by 

 one of the original supporters of Science, 

 will prove of interest to those who are not 

 acquainted with the earlier history of the 

 journal. All men of science are under very 

 great obligations to Mr. Bell and Mr. 

 Hubbard for establishing a weekly journal 

 of science in America at a time when the 

 conditions were less favorable than at pres- 

 ent; to Mr. Scudder for the high standard 

 maintained during his editorship, and to 



Mr. Hodges for liis faithful and untiring ef- 

 forts on behalf of the journal. 



J. McK. C] 



In 1882 Mr. A. Graham Bell conceived 

 the idea of estabUshing a scientific journal, 

 which should do for America what ' Nature ' 

 does for England. For this purpose, he was 

 wilUng to contribute, with the cooperation 

 of Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard, the sum of 

 twenty-five thousand dollars, which, in the 

 estimation of good judges, would be suffi- 

 cient to start a weekly paper and put it on 

 a paying basis. Mr. Bell furnished the 

 larger proportion of this sum. Mr. Samuel 

 H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., became 

 the editor. President GUman, of Johns 

 Hopkins ; Major Powell, of the Geological 

 Survey ; Professor Newcomb, of the Nautic- 

 al Almanac ; Professor 0. C. Marsh, of New 

 Haven ; and Professor Trowbridge, of Co- 

 lumbia College, agreed to give their advice, 

 and to act with Messrs. Bell, Hubbard and 

 Scudder as a Board of Directors. This 

 board, representing different interests and 

 localities, possessed great weight with the 

 entire community, and was believed to be 

 generally acceptable to scientists. 



The first number of ' Science ' appeared 

 February 9, 1883, some six or eight months 

 subsequent to the conception of the idea. 

 Mr. Moses King, the first publisher, retired 

 the succeeding September. Shortly after, 

 Mr. C. L. Condit, formerly with the ' Nation,' 

 took charge of the publishing department 

 and continued until the spring of 1886. Mr. 

 Scudder retired from the editorsliip in 

 1886 and was succeeded by Mr. N. D. 0. 

 Hodges, when the ofi&ce was removed fi-om 

 Cambridge to New York. It was soon found 

 that twenty-five thousand dollars was not 

 sufficient, and Messrs. Bell and Hubbard 

 continued to advance further sums until, in 

 1886, they had expended about seventy-five 

 thousand dollars, without having made the 

 paper self-supporting. 



An arrangement was then made with Mr. 



