192 STEVENSON. 



know nothing yet. We have gathered a few large pebbles from 



the shore, but the mass of sands is yet to be explored. 



And now the moral has been drawn. The pointing is simple. 



If America, which, more than other nations, has profited by 



science, is to retain her place Americans must encourage, even 



urge, research, must strengthen her scientific societies and her 



universities, that under the new and more complicated conditions 



her scientific men and her inventors may place and keep her in 



the front rank of nations. 



New York University, 

 February, 1 898. 



