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mortals with the feeling of their powerlessness into passivity 

 of resignation, it has urged them to react against destiny, 

 and has taught them the sure way by which they can diminish 

 the sum of woe and injustice, and increase their happiness 

 and that of their fellows. It has not accomplished this by 

 means of verbal exhortation or a priori reasoning, but by vir- 

 tue of processes and words really efficacious, because they are 

 acquired from the study of conditions of existence and the 

 causes of evil." 



Further, as the editor of The Popular Science Monthly has 

 said: 



"The advance of science is evidenced in numberless ways, 

 but our weightiest proof of it is found in the gradual 

 acceptance of enlarged in place of narrower views of 

 the subject. New discoveries are important; the widening of 

 the ranges of research is important; the extension of general- 

 ization and better organization of positive knowledge are 

 important; but more inportant still is the growing general 

 recognition that science is the grand agency in modern times 

 for reshaping the common opinions of the community." 



The local elevating effect of work in pure science is the 

 taking a man away from the sordid things of the world, 

 and 



"No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, 

 And all life not be purer and stronger thereby." 



By this I would not be understood as placing him who 

 works only in pure science on a pedestal, or intimate that he 

 is superior to the other who makes a practical outcome of his 

 scientific work the main object. I am well aware of the elo- 

 quent .statements about this being an industrial age and the 

 duty of young men te seek a technological education. Far be 

 it from my purpose to exhibit the least antagonism to the gen- 

 eralspirit of such appeals, for I endeavor to teach much of 

 the same thing, but in it all and with it all, I would urge 

 that the pure science be either kept ahead or abreast of com- 

 mercial progress. Neither the pure nor the practical deserves 

 to be developed alone, They are inter-dependent and have 



