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PROCEEDINGS. 



some one's opinion about it or explanation of it. This is 

 much more difficult than it seems. How often are beliefs 

 and views taken for facts ! 



Science teaches us to sift, discriminate, weigh, relate and 

 assess. It trains us to investigate without personal or 

 racial bias. One of the most monstrous assertions of the 

 Germans is that all true science has been, is, and will be 

 German. 



Science is antagonistic to all mental laziness and all 

 mental haziness. It is opposed to all tradition which cannot 

 give a justification for its existence. Superstition flies 

 before the light of science. Science impresses us with the 

 dignity of facts; with the majesty of the inexorableness of 

 law^ the inevitableness of the bond between cause and effect, 

 and the omnipresence of the principle of continuity. It 

 does not allow us to accept the opinions of any man how-ever 

 exalted unless he can demonstrate them to us as derived 

 from observed data by processes of reasoning similar to those 

 used by all genuine students of science. 



And thus, finally, we are led to recognize three orders 

 or degrees in science, — 



The collection of data; 



The correlation of cause and effect; 



The philosoph}' of science. 



Facts must be observed, data collected, objects pre- 

 served and compared. Many men of science do not proceed 

 beyond this first stage; they are often amateur "naturalists" 

 who observe and collect much that is of great value. This 

 is alluded to as "spade work" in science. Some one has to 

 do it. Linnaeus did it, Roy did it, Darwin and Wallace 

 did it. All the Anatomists, Embryologists, Zoologists, 

 Botanists, Entomologists, Conchologists, Geologists, and 

 Meteorologists are men of this lowest or first order of science. 

 Theirs are the descriptive sciences. Some persons to-day 



