GEOLOGICAL MENTALITY 
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effectual as bombardment of marbles, and against which successive 
waves of German bayonets broke in perfect impotency as the 
storm sea dashes itself to spray under the beetling cliffs of Albion. 
The great lesson must be read directly from the book of Nature, 
on the very ground itself, with the matchless panorama of cuesta 
France spread out before. 
Geological Mentality In The Making 
For the ten year period covering the second decade of our new 
century, the death toll of distinguished scientific men is so very 
appalling that sometimes our gravest apprehensions are aroused 
as to whether there can ever be replacement adequate enough to 
overcome their complete extinction. We find partial response 
to our fears in Professor CattelFs recent, new and third edition 
of “American Men of Science.” Redistribution of the One 
Thousand leading scientific minds, determined by vote of the 
recognized authorities in each of the twelve principal branches of 
science, brings out a number of startling yet very instructive fea¬ 
tures. 
Astounding fact is it that almost one-half of the One Thousand 
“starred” men are intimately identified with so few as two insti¬ 
tutions ; and that 800 of the 1000 emanate from only six universi¬ 
ties. Recognition of starred men who ’are not products of 
cloistered hall is a distinct advance, and is one of the direct 
broadening results of the World War. Amounting now to over 
five per cent of the total, the number who are not in any way 
associated with institutions of learning probably reaches double 
the figure mentioned, and will doubtless increase with the passing 
of the years. This leaves only about 15 per cent of the “stars” 
of the country to be apportioned among the 400 odd other colleges. 
The fundamental significance of this circumstance is impressively 
obvious. 
That 80 per cent of the creative productivity of the nation 
should be concentrated in half a dozen universities is a fact that 
is itself most remarkable. It is an increase of 50 per cent in 
the decade. 
Compared with the older table of ten years ago the new align¬ 
ment is as follows: there being, of the One Thousand leading 
men of science, produced by 
