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for there is such an amount of genius in this State that it spills over into 

 all the other States. California is full of it that has been borrowed from 

 Indiana, and so with the other States. The first thing, then, is heredity. 

 The second thing is to be "up against it." We read in history that Dar- 

 win went to see horse races and watched them very closely; that he was 

 interested in the beetles of England and gathered beetles in season and 

 out of season. In other words, with all the scientific training a student 

 gets he should be brought right up against nature; against the things that 

 do not lie if you listen to what they have to say. Then the third thing. 

 We read in the various historical sketches of Darwin that he "walked 

 with Henslow," a man with enthusiasm, and this enthusiasm was passed 

 from the teacher to him. I take it, then, that the making of a great man 

 of science rests on these three things, and I do not think the other things 

 have anything to do with it. I notice a man will do just as much when he 

 has not any time, as he will when he has all the time there is. 



Now, I think we have these elements to a greater or less extent in our 

 modern Universities. Of course, heredity is not included, but the second 

 element, that of coming up against it, is more or less within the power of 

 every institution now. There was a time when institutions prided them- 

 selves that they did not let the students come up against any scien- 

 tific knowledge. There was a time when the University teacher — an A. B. 

 — was more interested in the song of the oriole than the students in his 

 classes. But the Universities have recognized that defect. Now, the 

 third element, "walking with Henslow." Jacques Loeb, of the University 

 of Chicago, told me awhile ago that he received a very enthusiastic letter 

 from a young man who said he wanted above all things to study the 

 origin of life, and that he wanted above all things to study under Loeb 

 and enjoy his fellowship. Then Loeb wrote back that, unfortunately, he 

 had decided to go to California, and the young man wrote back : "Will 

 you kindly turn my letter over to your successor?" 



Now, to a large degree, young men are training themselves wrong. 

 Instead of "walking with Henslow," they are going where they are hired 

 for $200 to $500 a year. They are a bar to scientific research, for what 

 professor can teach his students to do a thing which he cannot do him- 

 self? You may remember in the last number of the Atlantic Monthly, an 

 article by Professor Showerman of the University of Wisconsin. The pro- 

 fessor had worked for some time on the prefixes in P, of Plautus, he was 

 then working on the suffixes in S, of Seneca, to be followed by the termi- 



