APPLIED SCIENCE. 



By Melville Dozier 



The word "Science," as at present used, covers an immense iield 

 of thought and activity, much of it purely theoretical, but much 

 more of it eminently and increasingly practical. It is only as science 

 may be applied to the experiences and necessities of daily life that it 

 reaches its heighest phase of usefulness; and, while the present is 

 preeminently the age of applied science, the real progress of the age 

 must be realized through continued and ever increasing advance- 

 ment in the same direction. 



One of the marked phases of applied science is the tendency of 

 development of human control of physical forces for the accomplish- 

 ment of many great ends and a vast multitude of smaller ends, un- 

 deniably connected with man's material needs, convenience and com- 

 fort. 



It is only necessary to mention air, water, fire and electricity, to 

 call to mind the almost countless applications of these mighty and 

 limitless forces of nature to the ever recurring and ever increasing 

 needs of man under the present and ever changing conditions of civ- 

 ilization. 



The very conditions under which human beings are living will 

 cause advancement along these lines to become both necessary and 

 sure; sure because necessary; and there need to be no anxiety lest 

 scientific research and scientific accomplishment shall not continue 

 to attain higher and more marvelous stages of perfection. 



But is it to these material and tangible things of life,' as import- 

 ant as they doubtless are, that the application of scientific principles 

 is to be limited? 



What about the science of government and the science of busi- 

 ness? 



Progress along the so-called material lines above referred to but 

 adds to the necessity of applying scientific principles to government 

 and to business; since, because of the ever increasing complexity of 

 human society, growing out of its ever increasing needs, which, in 

 turn, are the results of its ever increasing aspirations, the establish- 

 ment of scientific government and the application of equally and kin- 

 dred scientific principles to commercial enterprises becomes essential 

 to the conservation and proper use of all that is gained along the 

 lines of national advancement. 



One marked difference, however, between these two phases or 

 fields of applied science is that one grows out of the human mind 

 dealing with material, insensate things, subject to manipulation at 

 will and obeying blind forces that work uniformly under fixed con- 

 ditions; while the other is the human mind dealing with the human 

 element, the spiritual nature, subject to every form of emotion, 

 aspiration, desire and will. 



Here is a world of difference, but a condition that requires no 

 less the application of true scientific principles in order to gain the 



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