660 ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR LOVERING. 
Newton, beyond all other men, in having a whole fresh universe 
before him, waiting for an explanation. But science wants no 
Alexanders weeping because there are not other worlds to conquer. 
For every heroic Columbus, who launches forth, in however frail a 
bark, upon untried oceans, seeing before him rich continents 
where others behold only a wilderness of waters, there are prec- 
ious discoveries in reserve. Surely the time has not yet come 
when the men in any section in this Association can fold their 
arms and say :— It is finished. Unless our physicists are con- 
tented to lag behind and gather up the crumbs which fall from the 
‘rich laboratories and studies of Europe, they must unite to deli- 
cate manipulation the power of mathematical analysis. Mathe- 
matics wins victories where experiment has been beaten. With 
good reason we applaud the many brilliant successes of instru- 
mental research.. Mathematical analysis, with its multitudinous 
adaptations, is the only key which will fit the most intricate wards 
in the treasury of science. With the help of her mathematical 
physicists, Great Britain has now taken a position in science 
which she has not held before since the days of Newton. In 
Germany, the physicists do not hold back from the most difficult 
problems of the day, because they are led along by experiment 
on one arm and by mathematics on the other. The zeal of the 
Italian scientists prevails, over even the terrors of Vesuvius, 
makes them ready to become martyrs, like Pliny the elder, to 
nature and humanity. France, too, out of the very ashes of her 
humiliation, sends an inspiring word to us. Since her defeat, her 
scientific spirit has been aroused as it was after the days of the 
first revolution. Her Association for the Advancement of Science 
is only a two year old infant; but it has sprung into existen®® 
like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, fullgrown and equipped: 
Already it has displayed a vitality and a prosperity which this 
Association, in its opening manhood, has not yet acquired. The 
words of its first President are as true for the United States 9° m 
France :— that the strength and glory of a country are not I its 
- arms but in its science. ; 
