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Show MUST PRESERVE RACIAL ENERGY Scientist Says Pessimism About Future Hastens Cultural Decline CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Dec ?S Th maintenance of the energy of the race Is the real task of our civilisation. Dr. Thomas S B Ba'aer. secretary and acting act-ing president of the Carnegie Institute Of Technology. Pittsburg, said In an address at a sectional meeting of the, American Association for the Ad-( vancemcnt of Science. "Is -degeneration inevitable'" he asked "It would be a bold prophet, j l who would say no to this question ;But to answer It In the affirmative luepos the acceptance of a form of j fatalism that will ultimately hrlng With It a decline In human confidence: 'and . ffort. J Tho world now shows signs of alarm as It contemplates Its many dls- orders. We are forced to notice ani I Increase In a spirit of morbid intro-' lapectlon which. If continued, may lead tb tho despondency which Is a char-acterlMtlc char-acterlMtlc of the people whose culture lis failing. "The Idea of progress has been al-. most an axiom In the popular thinking think-ing for nearly a century, but now In Its stead the conception of Inevitable, degeneration makes Itself heard from 'time to time. ( ur feelings revolt at 'this desperate view of the future. Op- tlmlsm Is an essential In the conservation conser-vation of our present stork of human, energy. Inertia will overtake the race If we lost confidence In the future. NEW IDEAS I SM.NTIAL. ' "The energy of the race can only he conserved through new ideas, now discoveries and the application of these, discoveries Mankind will degenerate unless there Is a continuous flow Oil new ideas from tho brains of gTen; thinkers to fertilize and Inspire tho actions and the lives of tho unthinking; masses. "We often mistake restlessness for energy. We may be making a great display of energy on enterprises that hive no permanent value Tho rapid Increase of Interest In sports and ret -reatlon is a natural corollary to the heightened feverlshncss of our age. If we bellcvo that the conservation of Mjlj man's energy depends on high thinking think-ing we should attarh more importance to repose and contemplation than we do nt nresent. "Popular education can Increase tho sum total of human energy by bring- U'j lng to the surface powers that other- ail wise would have remained latent It cati liberate the mind of superior endowments en-dowments BRYAN CRITICISED. "At the present time we observe the increasing power of the masses. We ran Imagine that the power of th- Hid masses of unthinking peoplo might be Increased that they might dlctatw J,!: more completely the path which think- j ers must follow In order to secure a tt'.j hearing. Should this be the case there would result a blocking of progress not nil dissimilar to tho check that was pm. upon the original minds of the middle MT : ages. I "I cannot refrain from mentioning ) -as recent apiples of medievalism the ftght nf Brvan to . nlist the unthlnk- Ih ing people in his struggle to stifle free- K dom of thought In the field of science, and the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan to III reduce the country to a state of mo M rule. "We have no assurance that our jjj civilization will be permanent. But so long as we believe that our culture and Bj our Ideals of living ought to be con- W1 served, our chief means of testing our success In maintaining them will he the amount of emergency and especial- W ly intellectual energy that is being l.rod uced." OLD THI "uv EXPLODED!, At a business session the Entomolog- jljl leal society elected as Its president Professor T D. A. Cockerell. of the mU University f Colorado, and approved m l a union of all biological societies In HI the country. Addressing the American Psycho- wij logical association. Dr. Harry Kitson. professor of psychology at Indiana university uni-versity said that a popular theor.v that ijll tall men and heavy men made the best salesmen had been disproved by scientific scien-tific analysis of the earnings of 600 salesmen. He was convinced that the Idea that by mere animal bulk a larg salesman could Impress or dominate .' client, was exploded. |