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lower animals are rooted fast, while many of the lower plants 

 have swimming- organs and are actively motile. Moreover, 

 all of the higher plants, change position more or less ; all are 

 sensitive; all show rythmic movements. Finally, the intimate 

 cell-chemistry of the two groups (production of digestive 

 enzymes, and the amino-acids, etc.), so far as known, is much 

 alike. — From an article by Dr. Erunn F. Siiiith in Science. 



Applied versus Pure Science. — The antithesis between 

 applied science and pure science is sometimes emphasized to 

 the point of bitterness. The only salvation in the situation 

 is that society as a whole overcomes some of the narrowness 

 of its individual members. The chemical researcher is supple- 

 mented by the practical man who dyes cloth and tans leather 

 and makes sugar. Society is gradually evolving special 

 agencies to help her in overcoming* the narrowness of special- 

 ists. She is evolving specialists wdiose business it is to bring 

 to narrow-minded practical w^orkers the results of the re- 

 searches of narrow-minded students of science. These middle- 

 men are sometimes unable to get the sympathy of either group 

 whose efforts they are trying to unify. — Jiidd: Psychology of 

 High School Subjects. 



