102 TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCiENCE. 
punishment, are very familiar to us also, unfortunately. If they are to 
he permanently valid in the real universe, Tolstoi's solution of the prob- 
lem of life can never be gainsaid. 
^ But there is a something which was given no effect among the data 
which led to that solution, a something called Science, now grown to be 
a mighty, an all-pervading spirit, which must, which will be reckoned 
with. 
In our own time, through Darwin, it has answered the riddle of the 
ages, whence come we? You now accept that we came from lower ani- 
mals by evolution working through millions of years. 
To one enquiring where are we? it is science that presents the tele- 
scope, the spectroscope, the microscope. 
Science cuts us into infinitesimal slips with its microtomes, gets inside 
our eyes with opthalmoscopes, looks through us with X-rays. 
Applied science is beginning to feed the world almost apart from hu- 
man labor. 
A moozhik, on an American wheat farm, watching the same machine 
reap the wheat, thresh the wheat, make bags, pack the wheat in bags, tie 
them up and deposit them ready for shipment, would be prepared to be- 
lieve the actual fact, that last year we deliberately burned more than a 
hundred thousand tons of molasses. 
The reign of brute strength, of the body is doomed even in the bar- 
barous arts of war. The modern Greeks are a remarkably strong, athletic 
race. Witness the fact that a Greek peasant lately won the long-distance 
race against the whole world. But when these athletes, backed by their 
knowledge of Greek and by the prayers of the combined Protestant 
church, Catholic church, Greek church, faced the villainous race who 
have been horrifying the world by their wholesale murder of Christian 
Armenians, and inconceivable atrocities to Armenian women and child- 
ren, behold the noble Greeks exercising all their great running powers 
to get away from these butchers of Christian women. Oh for a tiny 
division of those tiny, polite, intellectual little dwarfs called Japanese! 
Oh the consequent howls of those villain Turks! 
You know the Japanese appreciate the non-Euclidean Geometry. 
When I was in Hungary everywhere swords and sabres obtruded them- 
selves. 
The Hungarian women are beauties gifted with eternal youth. The 
Hungarian men are big whole-souled athletes. Their lavish hospitality 
prevented my saying to them that in real scientific warfare now days the 
sword is of about as much account as a Bologna sausage. 
JSTote in the newspapers that what saves the British armies is the Max- 
im gun ; what is breaking the fetters of Cuba is dynamite. 
