448 BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 
application of results to the benefit of mankind, and in the 
investigation of the fossil records. 
The atmosphere of thought engendered by the progress of 
biology is beneficial in every way. While its progress has 
dealt the death-blow to many superstitions and changed 
materially views regarding the universe, it is gratifying to 
think that it has not been iconoclastic in its influence, but 
that it has substituted something better for that which was 
taken away. It has given a broader and more wholesome 
basis for religion and theories of ethics; it has taught greater 
respect for truth and morality. However beneficial this 
progress has been in the past, who can doubt that the mission 
of biology to the twentieth century will be more important 
than to the past, and that there will be embraced in its 
progress greater benefits than any we have yet known? 
