Identifier: storyofexpositio05todd (find matches)
Title: The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company
Subjects: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: New York, London : Pub. for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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p, as an obedient and ever-ready servant.is Service That these gentlemen have made commercial successes oftheir ventures seems to have caused certain persons to lose in-terest in them as men of science. I have no sympathy with that point ofview. Only those who have tried it can know how much courage is requiredto risk everything in a new venture, how many hours of day and night aregiven to thought of the subject from all possible angles, how unceasing mustbe the maintenance of discipline in great business organizations. Not onlyis financial success doubly earned, and most desirable as an incentive to thesucceeding generation, but financial success is absolutely synonymous withmaking the subject useful to mankind. . . . The value of science as a factor in advancing the race depends at leastas much upon the applied as upon the theoretical side. . . . The human race needs above everything else the conviction that theprinciples of science rule everywhere, and that problems of personal and
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TABLET TO THE FLYING MEN; COLUMN OF PROGRESS THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 67 national life are not solved as long as any important forces are ignored. It isthe idealism of pure knowledge, the idealism in applied knowledge, in indus-try and commerce, in literature and art, in personal religion, which leavensthe life of the world and pushes forward the boundaries of civilization. Other general meetings of the Association as a whole included threepublic evening addresses, which were presented in San Francisco (in ScottishRite Auditorium) on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings, August 3, 5,and 6. On the first of these evenings Reginald Alsworth Daly, of Harvard Uni-versity, presented certain Problems of the Pacific Islands. He said inpart: Beyond the Pacific is the Old World, rapidly yielding its last secrets toits own peoples. Is not the piercing of Panama a suggestion, a brilliantsymbol, for American geographical science? The Golden Gate is not theend of the world for it. Already Dana

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