. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. Ill, No. 31. JULY 1922. PRICE Is. NET, DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward , , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office : 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6rf. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. Ill, No. 31. JULY 1922. PRICE Is. NET, DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward , , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office : 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6rf. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. IL 1921, are now ready. Price 2S. 6d. net each; postage, gd. Editorial Notes There are many ways of writing about science, but all would be in praise of it, and most would be un- necessary. For it may now be taken for granted that science holds a high position in the minds of thinking men and women, and that it is one of the things that will continue to grow in power and influence. Re- garded merely as a matter of interest for leisure hours, the discoveries of science are engaging the attention of a gradually increasing body in the community. But there is an aspect of science which is often emphasised, and yet one to which attention might be often pro- fitably called, and that is its effect on modes of thought, the value of its method in forming opinion. ***** Science, no doubt, has concerned itself mainly with simple things, the easy problems, but what an achieve- ment is hers ! How has she so often successfully reached the bottom of things ? By a method, a method which consists in collecting and weighing evidence, organising its facts, and generalising them to a clear conclusion. Science, it has been said, is really an animated logic in which the mind receives its first training among real things—real palpable things—not mere words or ab- stractions. Its method consequently should help us to be both logical and lucid, to go straight towards the tr
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