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In Chemistry research of this kind has been undertaken only casually and over small portions of the field. Franz Wald is one of the independents who has been working along this line for many years. General appreciation of the fundamental character of such investigation extends very slowly indeed. Three years ago, on the occasion of the Faraday lecture, I made an attempt to arouse the interest of chemists in these matters, but the result was not very encouraging. But few expressions of opinion were offered on this occasion, and these were largely contradictory in nature. It was quite evident that the question at issue was not clearly understood, and the entire matter was strange, even to chemists of note. But I know from personal experience that patient and continued labour can accomplish wonders even when the case seems hopeless. One must wait for the right time, and I am convinced that the time for this matter has arrived.
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In Chemistry research of this kind has been undertaken only casually and over small portions of the field. Franz Wald is one of the independents who has been working along this line for many years. General appreciation of the fundamental character of such investigation extends very slowly indeed. Three years ago, on the occasion of the Faraday lecture, I made an attempt to arouse the interest of chemists in these matters, but the result was not very encouraging. But few expressions of opinion were offered on this occasion, and these were largely contradictory in nature. It was quite evident that the question at issue was not clearly understood, and the entire matter was strange, even to chemists of note. But I know from personal experience that patient and continued labour can accomplish wonders even when the case seems hopeless. One must wait for the right time, and I am convinced that the time for this matter has arrived.
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Two tasks are set for the workers in any science. One of these is to enrich the chosen field by the discovery of new facts and the statement of new experiences. The other task is no less important, but its value is perhaps not so evident at first glance. It is to arrange the facts already known in the best order and to bring out the relations between them as clearly as possible. Whenever progress in the first of these tasks has been rapid the second becomes the more necessary, for it offers the only possible way of attaining mastery over the manifold separate experiences and of bringing the science as a whole into a convenient and serviceable form.
The extraordinary development of the experimental side of the science of Chemistry has in some measure thrust into the background the work which has been done on the methodical side. This work has not been wholly lost, but an examination of the various theories which have been advanced in the past few decades, especially in the field of organic chemistry, indicates that most of them were born of the necessity of a day and that they were ephemeral in their influence. A desire for generalization is an important and justified one, and the only reason for the unsatisfactory outcome of all these theories is to be sought, in my opinion, in a fundamental error. Hypothetical assumptions were used in their development. Hypotheses were set up in each case with special reference to the phenomenon to be explained, and I believe that the right way has been obscured in many instances.
Indication of the right way is given by the experience of other sciences which are older and simpler than Chemistry and which have therefore already attained the necessary ripeness.
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