Abstract
IN this book the author has expanded a course of lectures on the development of science and its relation to the history of society, recently given by him as Hitchcock professor at the University of California. The first of its ten chapters deals with the interpretation of history, and the different conceptions that have been put forward, namely, unique events, cycles of civilization, and the idea of progress. Dr. Kenneth Mees rightly directs attention to the separation of humanistic learning from scientific knowledge, and adds : “The humanists must unde stand what the scientists have done in the past, are doing now, and may do in the future ; while the scientists must see their work in the light of history and in relation to the effects that its application to social conditions will produce”. The Path of Science By Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, with the co-operation of Dr. John R. Baker. Pp. xii + 250. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1946.) 3 dollars.
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