with "Reverend" before their names and a lot of capital letters following them. Once while visiting the home of a friend, her daughter, a beautiful girl of seventeen, remarked as she looked up from her Caesar: "Why are girls required to read stories about sending hundreds of soldiers to butcher women and children ?”

If we have been able to get so much from so imperfect a channel, is it not possible to develop a higher culture on the basis of a better material? Then again, poetry has been regarded as a field from which science was excluded. It may never have occurred to many that poetry is science when understood, and that science is poetic when extended far enough. Here again Huxley uncovers the ultimate scientific goal when he says: "For it is a peculiarity of the physical sciences that they are independent in proportion that they are imperfect.”1 This is more than a hint. When we have seen the tangible thread of continuity in its primal element all science will be united. Each branch of learning, whether scientific or literary culture, when understood, reveals to us a "melody of ideas" being revealed through another channel. Two books that have held the greatest melody for myself and attuned my life to something higher than human hope were Darwin's "Origin of Species" and Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." To the accepted idea of what constitutes poetry they were assuredly far from the mark.

The Naturalists have always manifested a remarkable sense of nobility. Their writings, likewise their lives, have been models of fine sentiment. When this sentiment has been carried further into what has been

1 Science and Education-Huxley (Page 295).

referred to specifically as the scientific world, those engaged in it have manifested in an interesting degree, the long sought ideal of the religious orders. Would it not be better to follow out such out-croppings as these instead of running off at a tangent endeavoring to take a short cut to the wisdom that is the world's desire?

It has been said that organic chemistry has taken God out of the mind of the chemist by his failure to find soul in the body. This was the result of the error of teaching that soul was in the body rather than the fault of chemistry. If the world-powers that attempted to explain all things had not taught this we would not have the awful mental cataclysm that has followed in the wake of scientific research. The work of the inorganic chemist has been the anarchy of events. He has learned that the more he attenuates matter, that is, its manifestations, the greater power he uncovers. What

is this? he asks. The human body so long regarded with awe and wonder quickly disappears under the processes of nature as well as under the microscope, and the last thing that he finds is but a feeble expression of a mightier and more enduring force with which he has to deal in inorganic life. The result is that he has seen something which inspires research and which he fears to name. May it not be possible that some day one such man, endowed with comprehensive co-ordination and poetic realization, will see the primal substance that nature expresses?

The business man reads without feeling or emotion the peroration concluding the address of some zealous economic reformer, and goes back to his dollars which he says are the only real substance. Some laborer or

sweatshop worker reads the same peroration and is fired with a zeal that makes empires tremble. We have too long attempted to account for such things by regarding them as individual characteristics. They are an expression of a mighty force1 that is ever seeking to make itself known to everything that needs it. It is the sovereign alchemy which when understood will separate the good from the evil, the helpful from the harmful, the nauseous from the nectar of delight. It is the ultimate scientific research; it is the common ground of religion, science and philosophy; it is the immeasurable universe of Immaterial Principle, which we will never comprehend until we have developed the apperception that destroys the symbol and makes obvious the symbolized.

Many men have felt this influence and great religions have been built on their consciousness of it. However, they have lived their time to disappear like those who came before them. Their burial ground is the past which we would all do well to forget, except for the lessons it teaches, which too few have learned. They have, these men of light, seen with eye of seers what poets, reformers, zealots and scientific experimenters have seen in a fragmentary way. There is one thing they have all overlooked and that is that revelation must become education. Science correctly understood embraces all that is good in this world, regardless of names. A revelation to a few does not imply scientific growth to the many. Science is growth which is expressed in action, rather than

In "The Harbor" by Ernest Poole this force is made to stand out apart from the characters it is influencing. Heretofore, this has been treated as an abstract quantity or a characteristic of the individul. In Mr. Poole's book we see people, under this influence, sacrificing fame, reputation and ease to engage in what appears to be a "losing cause."

words. Men and women have received this light, and instead of contributing it to scientific growth and fitting the keystone to the triumphal arch of science they have, like children who have stolen a pie, run off to eat it in a corner alone. The children learn their folly when they get sick, and likewise these selfish mystic circles are compelled to suffer from the nauseous dogma their unscientific minds have fabricated. Cults and sects war with one another, but science wars with things that beset man's pathway here on earth. When extended to its final realization, it will be the "kingdom come" which we have all prayed for. Selfishness cannot enter into science, for when selfishness enters science disappears. For this reason we must build on the work of those who have "builded wiser than they knew." The temple of Truth must be constructed in the consciousness of man. Unless each discovery of light is merged into this arch of science, until the keystone is found and fitted, we will be mere builders of towers of Babel and scattered by misunderstanding to war on one another.

Science has been too long regarded as merely chemical analysis just as political economy has been regarded as a system of production and distribution of material things. The symbol, along with human selfishness, has taken science out of everything and left nothing but the husks of meaningless symbols. The need of suffering humanity made the science of chemistry just as it made the science of economics. Without this seemingly mysterious element which the religions zealot calls love, the artist calls temperament, the economist calls feeling, and the scientist dares not name, but calls it a desire to help mankind, there is no science.

Education that does not awaken in us a desire for such knowledge as will prevent our colliding with an "invisible God, the power of our fellow man, and brute Nature," is as useless as a painted battleship on a painted ocean. In the determination of the origin of Mental Species we will learn, more definitely I hope than we have ever known, our relation to these powers.