454 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
The Academy met in the Hall ofRepresentatives in the evening at 7:30 o’clock, 
and listened to a lecture by President Fairchild, of the Kansas Agricultural 
College, entitled ‘‘ Science in Every Day Life,” of which we can give at present 
but a brief abstract. The lecturer did not claim to be a specialist in science. 
He, however, showed that he was thoroughly familiar with the workings and 
achievements of science, and took up the various departments of life and showed 
what great benefits had been conferred upon the world through this means. 
Science has conferred great benefits upon commerce. The ocean, full of dangers, 
has become through science the safest and cheapest of thoroughfares. Science 
has not only warned navigators of danger, but has removed them. Even Hell 
Gate has not prevailed, the Mississippi has opened her mouths to commerce, and 
the Alps have been tunneled. Science has made war terrible, and thus reduced 
its victims. ‘The range of art has increased indefinitely. Men use the results of 
science without being thoroughly acquainted with theoretical science, and some 
enjoy the blessings without acknowledgment to those who confer them. All forms of 
industry have been aided by science, and the lecturer gave many examples, 
instancing the farmer, manufacturer, etc. In farming, men were getting out of 
the mere rut of imitation, and by applying science were now on the highway of 
progress. In our homes, science is testing the food we eat, the water we drink, 
and the air we breathe. Science finds ‘‘death in the pot,” where men least 
expect it. Science discovers poisons in various directions and warns men of 
the danger. Science has done much in the way of giving us the necessaries of 
life and has bestowed upon us many of our luxuries. The day of mere muscle 
among the nations has passed, and the day of mind has dawned. The powers of 
men are developed and enlarged, and they have acquired skill. All labor becomes 
ennobled as it uses mind and involves thought. The American watchmaker 
excels the Swiss watchmaker, not in greater skill, but in superior knowledge of 
general principles. 
Our morals touch, also, on the principles of physical science, and moral 
teachers must understand these. Wisdom does not consist simply in knowing 
facts, but in knowing the bearing relations of facts. Men must learn to receive 
sensations without bias, and interpret them aright. A true interpretation of the 
principles of nature is the basis of wise living. 
But science reaches beyond mere physical forces and touches the infinite, 
and true science leads us to know and honor the Cause of all things. Science 
exalts many lines of drudgery into callings that are noble and useful. The prog- 
ress of the world is in the line of its wants. The growth of invention has 
followed the growth of our wants. The sounds of the telephone were first heard 
from a bath tub. From the time that Adam and Eve learned that they needed 
clothing scientific skill has been supplying our wants. 
An accurate science is the greatest stimulus to real progress. The cultivated 
races meet their own wants the best, and supply something for other races. The 
man or race whose wants increase more and more every year are on the highway 
