The Nature of the World and of Man.

Abstract

THIS is an ^ctq of specialization. The fact is especially true in science. During the last twenty-five years advances have been made in every field of science (greater than the progress in all previous history. The diameter of the stars has been measured, the amazing properties of radium have been analyzed, and the atom has been broken up and its almost incredible interior structure discovered, revealing to us, the existence of solar systems in the realm of the infinitesimal. In chemistry, physics, geology, biology, bacteriology, palentology, anthropology, ethnology, zoology, and psychology, a mass of new knowledge has been accumulated that is,