The Advancement of Science, 1922

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Excerpt from The Advancement of Science, 1922: Addresses Delivered at the 90th Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Hull, September 1922IT is sometimes said that Science lives too much to itself. Once a year it tries to remove that reproach. The British Association meeting is that annual occasion, with its opportunity of talking in wider gather ings about scientific questions and findings. Often the answers are tentative. Commonly questions most difficult are those that can be quite brie¿y put. Thus, 'is the living organism a machine?' Is life the running of a mechanism?' The answer cannot certainly be as short as the question. But let us, in the hour before us, examine some of the points it raises.Of course for us the problem is not the why of the living organism but the how of its working. If we put before ourselves some aspects of this working we may judge for ourselves some at least of the contents of the question. It might be thought that the problem is presented at its simplest in the simplest forms of life. Yet it is in certain aspects more seizable in complex animals than it is in simpler forms. And so let us turn thither.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.