kdfankly admit that the knowledge is turen; long freighit trains of steel cars
' etill so novel, so Im erfectly a imi- thunder across: continents; monsrous
e in in 't M ak in g laed, so inadequately coordinated,and n.sss of wealth pile up, are rin-
so feebly and ineffectively presented 1eted, an aplied to making the
(Continued) to the great mass of men, that its whole system a ore and more incon-
By James Harvey Robinson direct effects upon human impulses ceivably intricate and interdependent;
and reasoning and outlook are yet in- and incidentaly there is hurry and
(Published by Harper & Brothers) seek the truth, of questioning every- considerable and disappointing. We worry and discontent and hazard be-
i2. The Scientiic Revolution hing at least once in our lives. To all might think in terms of molecules, but yond be ef for a creature who has
these' leaders in the development of we rarely do. Few have any more to grasp it all and control it all with
At the opening of the seventeenth modern science doubt, not faith, was knowledge of their own bodily oper- a mund reared on that of an animal,
otury a man of letters, of sufficient the beginning of wisdom. They doubted ations than had their grandparents. a child, and a savage.**
nius to be suspected by some of -and with good reason-what the The farmer's confidence in the phases The uttermost parts of the earth
ying written the plays of Shakes- Greeks were supposed to have dis- of the moon gives way but slowly be- have been vis:ted by Europeans, and
covered; they doubted all the old fore recent discoveries in regard to .omnerce has brought all races of the
tare, directed his distinguished liter- books and' all the university profes- the bacteria of the soil. Few who use globe into cloe touch.' We have now
y ability to the promotion and exal- sors' lecture notes. * * * They the telephone, ride on electric cars, to reckon with every nation under
1ion of natural science. Lord Bacon set to work to find out exactly what and carry a camera have even the heaven, as was shown in the World
as the chief herald of that habit of happened under certain circumstances. mildest curiosity in regard to how War. * .* So all the peoples of
iutific and critical thought which' They experimented individually and these things work. It is only indirect- the earth form pconomically a loose,
reported their discoveries to the sci- ly, through invention, that scientific and, as yet, scarcely acknowledged
s played so novel and all-important entific academies which began to come knowledge touches our lives on every r in which the fale
part idf the making of the modern into existence. * * * hand, modifying our environment, of any member may affect the affairs
ind. * * * Without a certain un-Greek, prac- altering our daily habits, dislocating of all the others, no matter hew re-
And never has there been a man tical inventive tendency which, for the anciently established order, and mote they may be gesgraphically.
ttter equipped'with literary gifts to reasons not easily to be discovered, imposing the burden of constant adap- All these unprecedented conditions
'each a new gospel . than Fran'cis first began to manifest itself in the tation on even the most ignorant and have conspired to give business for
aeon. He spent years in devising thirteenth century, this progress would lethargic. business' sake a fascination and over-
oquent and ingenious ways of deliv- not haye been possible. The new Vast factories have sprung up, with whelming importance it has never had
'ing learning from the 'discredits' thinkers descended from the magis- their laborious multitudes engaged on before. We no longer make 'things
ud disgraces" of the past, and in ex- terial chair and patiently fussed with minute contributions to the finished for the sake of making them, but for
rting man to explore the realms of lenses, tubes, pulleys and wheels, thus article; overgrown cities sprawl over money. The chair is not made to sit
ttre for his delight and profit. * * * weaning themselves from the adora- the neighboring green fields and pas- (Continued on Page 4)
inpeached the medieval school- lion of man's mind and understand-
an for spinning out endless cobwebs ing. * 5 ___
learning, but of 'o substance of Moreover, they did not confine
>irit. He urged the learned to come themselves to th conventionally tiEES A
it of their cell , study the creations noble and elevated subjects of secu- . S
God, and build upon what they dis-' lot~on. They addressed themselves to t43 l"[it tFRE
'vered a new and true philosophy. * * worms and ditchwater in preference Ey GBERlTh
We hav recaled temysicim to metaphysical subtleties. They Ae S ERIT Ne
W e byrve recalled the mysticism. I 510 ittsnias easss
pernaturali-sm, and intolerance of ,agreed with Bacon that th mean and
.e Middle Ages,-their reliance on oldi even filthy things deserve study. All itEPRODtCTION OF' TE WORLD FAMOUS DIAbMONDS
>oks,.and their indifference to every- this was naturally scorned by the uni-
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