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TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
day by the more judicial spirit of modern reasoning, it is still not the 
method in which such a momentous question should be treated. 
The mission of modern science then is not alone to discover more 
knowledge and to invent new uses for it, but also to teach men how to 
investigate, how to compare, how to think, how to reason, and finally 
how to establish the verity of their inferences and conclusions by testing 
their conformity with the processes of nature. 
