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reprint of his oral argument in one of the cases; and contempor¬ 
ary newspaper comment upon these matters. Also reprints or 
original copies of many of his public addresses upon legal, educa¬ 
tional and miscellaneous subjects. Also accounts and reviews of 
his scientific works and publications, taken from periodicals of 
high authority. This compilation exhibits from the original sources 
evidence of the wide range of Mr. Springer’s intellectual activities. 
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, president of the Southwestern Division 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 
director of the Desert Botanical Laboratories of Carnegie Institute, 
spoke on the “Business Man in Science”: 
The honor which comes to me is in no sense personal. I feel that 
I am here representing the 12,000 members of the American Associa¬ 
tion for the Advancement of Science — an Association made up of men 
whose biographies would be the history of science of the world for 
the last seventy-five years. I feel especially happy on this occasion 
because the subject of our felicitations represents the very ideal and 
essence of this Association which has given so much to the world. I 
have no compromises to make. I can speak frankly and it is not 
often that a speaker on these occasions can go without limits. 
In order to put to you how a scientist would feel about this matter, 
I must go aside for the moment and consider the state of society in 
which we live. In a democratic form of government our educational, 
scientific, and artistic work must take the form of generalized effort 
which mostly has no high peaks. To illustrate what I mean by that: 
an organization may employ a great artist to make pictures; may give 
him so much for the month or day; and in spite of the fact that they 
are in harness, our musicians, artists, and poets do great things. But 
the great creative work of the world is done on individual initiative. 
Quite regardless of what may or may not happen in Russia or in any 
other experiment, rational or crazy, whose nature is always such that 
the group of people whom James Harvey Robinson has designated as 
“the wonderers”—and in that group he includes the scientists, the 
poets, and the artists — the creative work of these people will be done 
not under direction but as a matter of personal effort — driven from 
within and not from without. 
I am not here to decry democratic government, whatever its failings 
and failures may have been. But I do wish to emphasize some of the 
finer graces that may arise on the basis and on the substratum of 
sound democracy. The most precious thing that can come from such 
a substratum is a sense of service, a sense of indirect accomplishment. 
The artist or the scientist who gives himself to his own longings, who 
pleases his own curiosities, who does his work not because he is told 
to — these are the men who achieve. 
