Excerpt from Science Progress, Vol. 1
Progress consists in the reconciling of apparent contradictions. Unity and differentiation, heredity and variability, are apparently opposed. Yet a mammal is more truly a unit than an organism that suffers little from being cut in two because each part can do the work of all. A civilised state with interdependent specialised interests suffers from the incapacity or rapacity of its classes more than a company of Fuegans, each of whom can supply all his own wants. Science is progressing in this way. Biology cannot advance without chemistry, geology leans on physics, and this interdependence is due to specialisation, to differentiation. In organisms and states intercommunication is essential to preserve this corporate life. Without nerves and blood-vessels an amoeba may possibly get on fairly well. Fuegans do not require railways or telephones. Science requires its blood-vessels and nerves, its railways and telephones. Each member requires what is elaborated by others to be collected and sorted and distributed for its use. It is most important that the work done in physical science in innumerable laboratories should be collected, digested, distributed for the information of the biologist, the chemist, the geologist.
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