The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-21
By EDWARD MARSHALL.


which 10 likely to be followed by de-
generation:
The greatest Of all archeo,ogists.
Flinders Fetrie, says that is what &C.
CURED in Egypt. in Greece, in Babylon
and in Rome. After that they died.
Now one Of the worlds mos, emi-
nent modern scientists. Lieut.-Col. Sir
Ronald Ross. whose name is potent
and his knowledge magic. hints to me
that he believes this war to he the sign
- OF Germany's decadence and a warm
Ing, not only TO the other fighting Ia
tons but TO the United States. that
national habits must he changed. ma
tional aspirations raised IL they are
not to suffer likewise. We talked the
matter out in his great house in Lon.
G'n recently.
Before recording what he said let
me relate something OF his wonderfully
brilliant career. which ranks him
ISsmong the forcmos, OF the worlds dis
shed scientists.
rs best, known service to humanity
vs. :''c discovery in 1897 of the part
Tyci by the mosquito ,anophnlesl
- transmission of malarial fever.
= 4 discovery has been as important
= 'rop. al countries as was the dis
! ed only through the bite OF the
, ne 'lscct. lie began his study Of
ara while in the Indian service
"a IN ls3? he headed an expedition to
Vet africa which there found the
! ,,ar!a bearing mosquitoes.
Many professional, scholastic and
c'rer honors have been given to him.
liz Is X. c. r. and an officer Of the
order OF Leopold H.: he has received
the Distinguished Service Order and Is
n r. r. s. and an honorary fellow Of
the College OF Physicians, rhiladel-
phia. He was the winner OF the Nobel
prize for medicine in 1902.
Besides holding his present !mpor-
tant post In the British army medical
keTN ICE ne rs uoW n pTOlcsSpI VI tlc
Liverpool school OF Tropical Medicine
OF the University OF Liverpool.
Modern science" he said thought
fuily. has made It possible to conduct
- a mighty war without the accompani-
7 mont Of epidemics. even though it be
carried on among conditions which
twenty years ago would have caused
~frigh,ful waves OF sickness. which UNI
doubtediy would have been responsible
for more deaths than weapons so far
have caused.
"But that is merely. the record Of the
medical work in the war. II cares
for the fighting men efficiently and
keeps them in condition to do good
fighting. The surgical side, upon
which, naturally. I am less informed,
for I am a medical man rather han
surgeon. has done literal marvels.
"Really neither the medica, nor the
surgical side OF this war, however. is
the aspect worthy OF the most careful
consideration. The psychological side
Is Of really great Importance. and
here we find a startling situation.
while science has been working
with such self-sacrihcing ardor and
humane efficiency for the good OF
mankind 1t cannot but seem damnable
to a worker in hat field like myself
that any other influence should have
been nurtured until It has become
set mankind upon the backward track.
. This barbarous war certainly will
mo-. mean a physiological. a psychology
.cal or a social advance any more than
Il viii mean an economic advance to
the nations involved through no fault
OF. their own or to that nation which
alsne must he held responsible for the
world disaster.
Il am convinced that in the past
war sometimes has had an effect bene-
hrial to the development of human
ity. Among savages war tended to
sill on the weaker tribes and indi-
v;duals. leaving the stronger to per-
,ctuatc the race. Later in the path
uf human development war tended to
Innate those nations in which the
.gnsc OF duty was not well developed
The human race Ia millions of years
Old and has reached Its present stage
- .'""Hress through, .he gradual edu-
cation OF all its faculties, all this du-
cation having been supposed to tend
\ way from barbarism and cruditics
War has been a part Of this educa
t."nAl procsss. in the past making
n"n brave, perhaps making them
Illf-sacrifcing.
II, may he that such warfare tended
I, develop the individual along lines
Lccessary to his best advancement, bu,
there can be found no excuse for think
Ing that such a war Of machinery and
tuomergencs Of the Individual a. that
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