. Cassier's magazine. ople where and how far to dig orbore for water, how much they wouldget, and at what depth they would getit. I have no doubt that he could sim-ilarly master the conditions of any otherdistrict, if sufficient time for the studyof it were allowed him; and I amequally sure that, without such timeand study, he would not undertake togive professional advice in a region newto him. The increased number of such scien-tific experts will ultimately do away withthe intuitive experts and the cloudof irrelevant or delusive appurtenanceswith which their operations are sur-rounded. This
. Cassier's magazine. ople where and how far to dig orbore for water, how much they wouldget, and at what depth they would getit. I have no doubt that he could sim-ilarly master the conditions of any otherdistrict, if sufficient time for the studyof it were allowed him; and I amequally sure that, without such timeand study, he would not undertake togive professional advice in a region newto him. The increased number of such scien-tific experts will ultimately do away withthe intuitive experts and the cloudof irrelevant or delusive appurtenanceswith which their operations are sur-rounded. This is the way in which allsuperstitions, half - knowledges andpseudo-sciences have been conquered,—not by direct frontal attack, but byflanking movements, which drive themfrom one position to another, and ulti-mately, by occupying the whole fieldunder a new flag, reduce its previousoccupants to the position of ousted,superfluous, and insignificant fugitives. NAVAL ASPECTS OF THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST By Archibald S. Hurd. W HAT are the lessons tobe drawnfrom the naval con-flicts in the Far East ?The world has seenthe newest and leastpowerful of the sevennavies of the East andWest cripple and par-alyse one of the great-est fleets of Europe, afleet with high prestigeand not undistin-guished history. Thesea force founded byPeter the Great hasbeen crushed withouthaving the opportun-ity of showing what itcould do, with fairly equal odds, in oneof those fleet actions, big ships batteringbig ships at a range of several miles,which have been frequently prophesiedsince the highly scientific and destructiveweapons of the present day were per-fected. The running fight of the Port Arthursquadron, when it tried to dash throughAdmiral Togos blockading force andfind refuge in some neutral port, cannotbe regarded as coming within this cate-gory, for the object of the Russians wasnot to fight, but to get away. As amatter of fact, the gun has had little partin the naval warfare in the Pacific,thoug
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