ENGLISH, SCIENCE, A Collection of Expository Essays for Students SELECTED AND EDITED BY J. LAWRENCE EASON, A.M. Grand Island College, Nebraska AND MAURICE H. WESEEN, A.M. University of Nebraska GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO 1921 KD 642 48 L HARVARD CARY FEB 13 1966 BAKER LIBRARY Copyright, 1918, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. All rights reserved, including that of ACKNOWLEDGMENT We take this opportunity to express our indebtedness to the many authors and publishers who have made the publication of this book possible. It owes much to the copyrighted material which it contains, and although due acknowledgments for permission to reprint are to be found throughout the book, it is a great pleasure to record here our sincere appreciation of these generous permissions. We wish to extend special thanks to The Atlantic Monthly and to the author, Henry S. Pritchett, for "Science (1857-1907)"; to the Popular Science Monthly for “The Evolution of the Scientific Investigator" by Simon Newcomb; to the Scientific American Supplement for "The Industrial Need of Technically Trained Men" by W. H. Abbott; to James P. Haney for "Art and the Engineer"; to the Sibley Journal of Engineering and to the author, Professor Arthur Ranum, for "On the Relation of Mathematics to Engineering"; to Messrs. Waddell and Harrington for "Two Kinds of Education for Engineers" by J. B. Johnson, and for "Some Relations of the Engineer to Society" by Colonel H. G. Prout; to Henry Holt and Company for "The Value of Education in Science" by J. S. Mill; to Dodd, Mead and Company for "The Importance of Dust" by Alfred Russel Wallace; to Dean Anson Marston for "The Civil Engineer and his Place in the World's Economy"; to The Macmillan Company for "Literature and Science" by Matthew Arnold; and to P. Blakiston's Son and Company and to the author, C. Stuart Gager, for "Evolution and Darwinism." |