Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    Wlieii MX' KiioM' clearly on M'liat pr-iiiciples Me liave to act, tliei'c Mxll 1)c no Mxant of practical leaders. Blit the inti^llectnal prolilein must he understood hefore the practical prohleni can he satisfactorily approached. Reformers and intellectual men must, hoM^ever, appi'oach men of the Morld in a practical manner, and Moth praetkal language if they are to he listened to. It is such an attenpit, early in the M’hole ]H“ogramme as it is, that I am making. Tn a preliminaiT statement such as the present, it is not advisalile to go into too gi'eat a length of statement. T indicate only, therefoi'e, the general lines of Mdiat I require. It I'ests M’ith those interestixl in these questions, and mIio may decide tlial / am on 1he right track, to say Mdiether my Mxirk shall continue oi' not. I have exhausted, as far as a rather primitive sense of })ersonal prudence moII alloM', my omxi })rivate means in carrying the Avork to its present stage. SEKIAL PUBLICATION. The only practical way to illustrate the Avork done Iq' such a group as I suggest Avould he to issue a Serial puhlication.