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efficient scientific organizations — the coast and geodetic survey and the 
public land, system. So fully has every statement been verified, and so 
fully has every prediction come true, that it seems as if he spoke with 
prophetic ken. He recognized the young Hercules, Science, that was 
to change the map of the world and to play havoc with political creeds, 
and if any proof was ever wanting it was given within forty years of 
the death of this statesman, diplomat, educator, architect, and philos- 
opher, when some of the men with whom he lived were engaged in 
martial strife, and one of the reasons of their inequality in the contest 
was their neglect of this one fundamental duty of a State to provide 
scientific training for its people.- Notwithstanding the fact that Jeffer- 
son so ably presented the claims of science in connection with the claims 
of other branches, its admission to the schools of the South was slow 
indeed; for three tyrants held sway and guarded the enchanted • land of 
education in the South — tradition, the blind devotion to the classics, 
and the peculiar civilization of our own. Science had to fight its way to 
an uncertain footing in our early schools, and it did not receive the scant 
courtesy generally accorded the poor relation. It was admitted as an 
experiment, and its pushing its way to a seat at the first table is one of 
the loudest advocates in its behalf. Its holding its place in our schools 
and its gradual advance is a tribute to its own merit, for its welcome was 
not always the warmest. But it patiently worked with the forces of 
nature, often with ridiculous toys for apparatus. It dealt with the flesh 
and blood of the life around us, and not with the bones of past ages. 
But it takes time for great changes, even with the greatest nations on 
earth. Notwithstanding the fact that science has held the world spell- 
bound by its phenomenal strides, we have not yet fully realized its 
power and utility. We are still partially stupefied, and the educational 
world is not absolutely certain as to the place the new guest should 
occupy at the banquet. But even without the testimony of such a high 
authority as Mr. Jefferson, the trend of modern events and developments 
would convince anj^one that the nation that fosters not science will 
surely die. It has proven the gieatest diplomat in all history, and has 
expanded the State in the same degree that it has been sustained. It is 
necsesary on account of the tremendous advantage the man of to-day 
has over the man of one hundred years ago. His efficiency and effective- 
ness have been increased in some instances one hundred-fold. The ad- 
vance in the one science of medicine has been sufficient to overbalance 
all of the money that has been expended upon all kinds of science. 
Every soul in the civilized world has received benefits from it. You may 
call it the march of civilization, the Anglo-Saxon, or our manifest des- 
tiny, but I call it the march of science. Our manifest destiny or any 
nation’s manifest destiny will be found to be in almost direct proportion 
