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itself — it is normal living. I think we may well urge upon the 

 attention of pathogenists the importance of estimating the historic 

 impress which is, in all disease-making bacteria, the natural primi- 

 tive and inherited hostility to the sunlight. In the adjustments and 

 readjustments of these parasites to special hosts and specific toxic 

 processes some may have overcome in a measure this natural 

 antagonism, but for the most their work is in the dark. The 

 marvelous results which have been attained in the treatment of 

 tetanus during the present war, by simple and constant exposure 

 to the sunlight, encourages us to believe that in similar pathology 

 a like treatment would be historically and logically correct. 



Fifty years ago when President Andrew D. White published his 

 " Warfare of Science and Religion," he said, ''A Truth written upon 

 the human heart today in its full play of emotions or passions can 

 not be at any real variance with the truth written upon a fossil 

 whose poor life ebbed forth millions of years ago." These fifty 

 years since have enabled us to say with equal security that the 

 record written on the fossil is the candle by which we must read 

 the fate of the community, the passions and emotions of the human 

 heart. 



We have been shocked into a consciousness that not all the virtues 

 abide in us. You may recall the ancient days of Rome when the 

 people annually gathered to pay an ofifering of oil and wine, of milk 

 and violets to the spirits of their ancestors, from the study of whose 

 examples they gained for themselves and inculcated in others a 

 respect for the virtuous past. So we say our aves to the great past 

 out of which we and all our guiding principles in individual life, in 

 the community, in the state, have come. 



Our broader vision which must be the bloom of our intense 

 specialization is like the dream of the patriarch who, resting his 

 head on a pillow of stone, saw a ladder reaching from this earth 

 to heaven and beheld the angels of God ascending- and descendin*^ 

 on it. 



