rn all that we can from the past; and that we are by nature and
training of a cool and calculating disposition, which is surely a thing
that is needed in this time of many suggested experiments.

To be effective, however, we must be cohesive, and thus be able to take
our part not as the led, but as leaders, convincing the people, if
possible, that all the ills of our social system cannot be cured by
remedies which neglect the forces of creation, and that the best doctors
for our troubles are not necessarily those whose sympathies are most
audibly expressed.

In the recent discoveries of science our ideas as to the forces of
Nature must be greatly enlarged and our theories amplified. Recent
discovery of radium and radio-active substances shows at least that much
of our old knowledge needs re-writing along the lines of our greater
knowledge of to-day.

With this increase of knowledge it would seem as though those who devote
their lives to the exploitation of natural forces should take a position
in the future even more prominent than in the past, and it will
undoubtedly become our function to help the world to that ideal state
described by our greatest living poet of action, when he speaks of the
time to come, as follows:

"And no one shall work for money,
And no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of working,
And each in his separate star;
Shall draw the thing as he sees it,
For the God of the things as they are."

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