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things arising from tof> much athletics which were overlooked 

 by parents and teachers in the good old pre-scientific times. 



Science in daily life, in so-called common life, is simply 

 intelligent living — the great need of the community of today. 

 The man of science has much to say about house-construction, 

 house heating, drainage, sewerage and other technical prob- 

 lems deeply affecting the health of our cities on which "the 

 light of Nature" throws very little light indeed. 



I would go so far as to say that science has become the 

 most important factor in the life of today. "But," some one 

 may ask, "shall we not always need lawyers?" To which 

 I would reply, that as long as human nature remains as it 

 is, we shall always have lawyers, but we really 7ieed the man 

 of science to guide us in crossing the unlit, uncharted desert 

 of this Avorld. 



If any one is disposed to belittle science, I have an infal- 

 lible cure; make him go through a day without the aid of 

 anything that involved science in its discovery or making. 

 Let such a person get up and try to light the fire; you cannot 

 allow- him matches, for phosphorus was discovered by men 

 of science and is utilized by them in many ways. You could 

 not allow him to wear clothes, for their fabrics were woven 

 by a machine which was the result of scientific ingenuity 

 applied to this very problem of weaviag fibres into fabrics. 



But we are not done with science in common life; it 

 underlies the intelligent rearing of children, and prevents 

 our giving them gastro-intestinal catarrh by allowing them 

 a little of "whatever is going" which may range from gin 

 to Welsh rarebit. The light of Nature gives a young mother 

 instruction only up to a certain point as regards infant 

 feeding. The man of science has developed Pediatrics. 



Dust and flies have, in these recent days, come under 

 the light of science, and this has shown them to be grave 

 menaces to the well-being of the human race. A largo 

 number of serious, infectious, epidemic diseases are now 



