The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-12

America was organized here to-day. The
association elected A. E. Winship, editor
of the New England Journal of Education
president; William G. Smith, editor o.
School Education, secretary, and George
P. Brown, editor of The Public School
Journal, treasurer. The next regular
meeting will be in February at Jackson
vile, Fla.
Vice President w. II. Bartholomew pre-
sided at the evening session. The report
of the committee on neurology was pre-
sented by C. w. Bardeen of Syracuse, N.
Y, and referred without reading.
Professor Joseph LIE Conte of the Uni
versity of California read paper on "The
Eff ect of the Theory of Evolution on Edu-
cation" Evolution" ne said, 'has been
recognized vaguely from the earliest times,
but only recently applied to life. 1t has
revolutionized our whole view of nature
and man, and modified philosophy and the
theory and methods of education. 1t has
changed the naturalist of the past, who
merely collected the wonders OF nature, to
the biologist, who analyses.
Science is studied by three methods
By Symbols or the mathematical method I;
by experiment, and by comparison, or the
widely efficient. By tracing the gradations
of life down from the highest vertebrates to
the lowest invertebrates; from the fully de-
veloped man back to the originating germ
cell; from the fauna of to-day back to the
earlier periods, and, comparing the results,
we gain all our knowledge of biology.
This method may be applied to to all phe-
nomena of human life.
Psychology" Professor LIE Conte said,
''can no longer be studied as a science dis
connected with other knowledges. There
is now doubt that man, both in body and
spirit, came by process of evolution from
some lower form of animal. Evolution
teaches that nothing originates all at once
by fiat, but that all things come by growth.
New forms come, not by destruction and
recreation, but by modification of the old.
"The ancient idea was that the Individual
should always be sacrificed to the good OF
society, as the greater and more important
organising the new idea is that the in
dividual immortal soul is more important
than all temporal social institutions. Evo-
luton recognizes the importance of the
individual, but sees in society the means
of arising it to,the ideal humanity, and that
only by subordinating individual interests
can this be achieved. Evolution refutes
the theory that man has fallen from a
state of perfection which can only be re-
gained through miraculous agency, but
places the golden age in the future. The
ascetic believes man is a dual nature,
a pure spirit which must for its
own elevation trample upon the
impure body. Hedonic philosophy makes
man but kind of animal, whose pleasures
are purely physical. Evolution combines
the two theories, and while not suppress
ing the physical, subordinates it to the
spiritual, the only one gaining strength
and vigor and the other refnements from
the combination. The lower animal has
only the present; man, through memory
and the Imagination, has the past and the
future. The animal has only self; man,
through sympathy and love, has many
selves. Through evolution selfhood in
man is revealed and again lost in love-"
Science and Education" was the sub
iect of a paper by w. L. Bryan. University
of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind. He be-
believed science is not all that is needed in
education; common sense must be brought
into use. The new scientific movement is
doing much good, but it is hard to get it
into the schools, although with such men
as his predecessor at work in the cause
the best might be hoped for.
After adjournment the teachers were
given reception by the Colorado Teach
ers' Association at the Brown Palace
Hotel