Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899

23

The metaphor is taken from the opening of the seventh book of Plato's Republic.

24

Cf. Spencer's Introduction to the Study of Sociology, chapters viii-xii.

25

The need of a language of rigid mathematical precision for the purposes of philosophic thought and discussion has long been the subject of remark. Hence Bishop Wilkins's Essay toward a real character and a philosophic language (1668), and the earlier Ars Signorum of George Dalgarno – boldly presented by its inventor as a "remedy for the confusion of tongues, as far as this evil is reparable by art." We may give these ingenious authors full credit for the excellent intentions with which they set out on impossible undertakings. A philosophic language may perhaps be attained in the millennium, but then probably it will be no longer needed. Meanwhile readers interested in the history of the mad scheme called Volapük may find some curious matter in these rare works.

26

History of Philosophy, vol. ii, pp. 95, 96.

27

This quotation is not from Bacon.

28

Present Condition of Sociology in the United States. Ira W. Howarth. Annals of the American Academy, September, 1894.

29

Fairbanks. Introduction to Sociology, p. 1.

30

See for the following: H. H. Powers. Terminology and the Sociological Conference, in Annals of the American Academy, March, 1895.

31

See Giddings. Principles of Sociology, p. 29.

32

Lester F. Ward. Purpose of Sociology. American Journal of Sociology, November, 1896.

33

Ward. Ibidem.

34

See Giddings. Principles of Sociology, chap. i.

35

In American Journal of Sociology, September, 1896.

36

In Annals of the American Academy, July, 1896.

37

See Giddings. Principles of Sociology, chap. i.

38

Small and Vincent. Introduction to the Study of Society, p. 46

39

Fairbanks. Introduction to Sociology, p. 44.

40

Fairbanks. Ibidem.

41

Small and Vincent. Introduction to the Study of Society, p. 218.

42

Herbert Spencer. Study of Sociology, chaps. iv to xii.

43

The Nation, vol. lx, p. 351. Review of Small and Vincent's Introduction to the Study of Society.

44

Quoted by Vincent in American Journal of Sociology, January, 1896, p. 487.

45

Higher Medical Education. The True Interest of the Public and of the Profession. By William Pepper, M. D., LL. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894.

46

Report of the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, from October, 1892, to June, 1894. Philadelphia, 1894.

47

See the article on Science at the University of Pennsylvania, in Popular Science Monthly for August, 1896.

48

Proceedings at the Opening of the William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, December 4, 1895. Philadelphia, 1895.

49

Imperial Democracy. A Study of the Relation of Government by the People, Equality before the Law, and other Tenets of Democracy, to the Demands of a Vigorous Foreign Policy, and other Demands of Imperial Dominion. By David Starr Jordan. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 293. Price, $1.50.

50

Man Past and Present. By A. H. Keane, F. R. G. S. (Cambridge Geographical Series). Cambridge, England: At the University Press. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. 584. Price, $3.

51

Recollections of the Civil War. With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties. By Charles A. Dana. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 296. Price, $2.

52

The Fairy-Land of Science. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 252.

53

True Tales of the Insects. By L. N. Badenoch. London: Chapman & Hall. Pp. 253.

54

Practical Agriculture. By Charles C. James. American edition edited by John Craig. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 203. Price, 80 cents.

55

From a paper read by Sir H. T. Wood, at the International Congress, on Technical Education, at Venice, May, 1899.