60 GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD 



the issue of the daily paper in every home in America, and the 

 yesterday's news is the origin of this household fire, but it comes 

 to us freighted with power with the same regularity that longi- 

 tudes wheel to the matinal light. Weekly, biweekly, monthly, 

 and quarterly journals have a longer life. Within the last quar- 

 ter of a century the magazine has become a forum in which pul> 

 lie men find expression for their best thoughts to a large public, 

 who wish to consider with care the current questions of the day 

 and preserve the material thus utilized for future reference. For 

 this reason it has come about that magazines have multiplied. 

 All thoughtful people are now magazine readers. The daily 

 press has become the mighty organ of current news, business 

 life, and political affairs, while the magazine is the organ of cur- 

 rent thought as literature and science. The daily paper, .re- 

 viewing the daily affairs of life, makes comment on public men, 

 public measures in the nation, the state, and the city. It pours 

 out wit and humor, sometimes good, sometimes far-fetched, with 

 a story for the idle and a syndicate letter for- the inquisitive, 

 which are read and forgotten, all going to the morning crematory. 



Neglecting the magazine as the organ of literature and consid- 

 ering it as the organ of science, by a careful review of the subject 

 it will be seen that the correlation of scientific research and the 

 organization of scientific opinion is now largety dependent upon 

 magazine literature. 



In late _years this new organ for the correlation of scientific 

 research has sprung up. The heat, light, electricity, magnetism, 

 and gravity of which the ether is the medium between celestial 

 orb and celestial orb, the orbs themselves, of which the earth is 

 a modest member, stealing its way through the universe by an 

 unseen path, content with reflecting the light of others — the earth 

 itself, with its moving atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and 

 centrosphere — all cooperate with the chemical agencies that are 

 forever reconstituting the rocks of the earth, and these through 

 their mantle of soil cooperate with living vegetal forms, and 

 these again cooperate with the hosts of animate things. This 

 vast system of cooperation between the hierarchy of bodies which 

 constitute our solar system allies every man engaged in scientific 

 research to every other man who studies the ways of nature. 

 For the solution of the problems connected with every crys- 

 tal, every plant, and every animal cannot reach their final solu- 

 tion without consideringthe whole world of bodies. One human 

 mind cannot solve them all. Inductive research must consider 



