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distinct name. Science (including metaphysics) embraces the de- 

 scription of the properties of bodies, and of the general laws which 

 are derived therefrom. The processes necessary for accomplishing 

 these ends, including deductive reasoning, are included, as acces- 

 sories, under the same general head. But the manifold uses of 

 the knowledge thus acquired are not science, but art. Not fine 

 art of course, but mechanic art, medical art, etc. Mechanic art is 

 the application to human uses of the facts and laws of physical 

 and mathematical sciences. Medical art is an application of the 

 facts and laws of anatomical and physiological science. The pur- 

 suit of applied science is always a shorter road to popular favor 

 than the cultivation of pure science. People are naturally im- 

 pressed by their senses, and they easily confound the exhibitor 

 with the creator. Moreover the genius displayed by the inventor 

 is like that of the artist proper, a wonderful attribute of the 

 human mind. It is only second in rank to the power of discover- 

 ing new truth, and it excites our wonder the more, because it is 

 more automatic. Omnc igin-tum pro mirabile is a saying which 

 describes the average sentiment of humanity. With lucid ex- 

 planation, wonder ceases, for " anybody can understand it." From 

 time immemorial the worker in mysteries has commanded the 

 admiration and purses of mankind, while the expounder of truth 

 has scarcely been tolerated. But it is becoming generally known 

 that all mysteries yield to the solvent of investigation, and that 

 when the web is unraveled, it is found to consist of the universal 

 raw material, put together by the ordinary laws of necessity which 

 reason discloses. Nevetherless mental automatism remains, after 

 consciousness, the second wonder of the universe, whether it be 

 displayed in scientific or artistic labor. While science has her 

 true field — the discovery of truth, it will ever be the glory of art 

 to apply it to human necessities and pleasures. 



In the death of the Hon. Lewis H. Morgan, American 



science loses one of its original thinkers, and one of its most in- 

 defatigable workers. His work on ancient society is " epoch-mak- 

 ing," and advanced the science to a new stage of its history. In 

 selecting the industrial history of mankind as the true test of his 

 progress, Mr. Morgan applied the idea, subsequently worked out 

 by Herbert Spencer, that the industrial form of society is a higher 

 type than the militant, and is more prosperous, and more perma- 

 nent. It is the available test of the progress of intelligence among 

 primitive races ; and the progress of intelligence is the evolution 

 of man. We are satisfied that Mr. Morgan's general ethnologic 

 system will remain, whatever may become of some of the details, 

 and that his name will stand as that of the first of American thinkers 

 in the high field of anthropology, up to this date. Like other 



