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chief was one to whom research work owes a very great debt 
of gratitude indeed — the late and greatly lamented Daniel 
Coit Gilman. The only article found is one on “expert,” 
and this pertains chiefly to “expert evidence” in courts of 
law. Yet what better statement concerning the “research or 
scientific spirit” could be made than contained in the follow- 
ing quotation* from Gilman's writings? 
“It is perpetually active. It is the search for the truth — 
questioning, doubting, verifying, sifting, testing, proving, 
that which has been handed down; observing, weighing, 
measuring, comparing the phenomena of nature, open and 
recondite. In such researches, a degree Of accuracy is now- 
adays reached which was impossible before the lens, the 
balance, and the metre, those marvelous instruments of pre- 
cision, had attained their modern perfection. Wherever we 
look we may find indications of the scientific spirit. The 
search after origins and the grounds of belief, the love of 
natural history, the establishment of laboratories, the perfec- 
tion of scientific apparatus, the formation of scientific asso- 
ciations, and the employment of scientific methods in history, 
politics, economics, philology, psychology, are examples of 
the trend of intellectual activity. The readiness of the gen- 
eral government and of many State legislatures to encourage 
surveys and bureaus, the establishment of museums of nat- 
ural history, and the support of explorations illustrate this 
tendency. Even theology feels the influence. The ancient 
and sacred proverb has been rediscovered — the letter killeth 
and the spirit maketh alive. I will go only to the edge of 
this disputed territory and shelter my own opinions behind 
those of a learned and devout prelate of the English Church 
(Bishop Walcott), whose words are these: ‘No one can be- 
lieve more firmly than I do that we are living in a time of 
revelation, and that the teachings of physical science are 
to be for us what Greek literature was in the twelfth cen- 
tury.' ” * * * 
“With the growth of the scientific spirit grows the love 
of truth, and with the love of truth in the abstract comes 
the love of accuracy in the concrete.” 
Our foremost English dictionaries are in general not any 
more satisfying or edifying regarding the precise meaning 
♦Extracts from the “Launching of a University,” 190G, pp. 147-150. 
