Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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rut: \ ritim r/OA OF CIIKMIHTBY TO MODERN III QO1 [)ai(l I THINK that t'.-w who h;i\ I ial attention to the ubjecl realu hoi compli I the world, as a place to live in, N has been transformed during the past century. This transformation rests for if basis almost entirely on our fund of scienific knowledge, and especially upon ih knowh e of physics and chemistry and b which has been accumulated by cientific workers during the past seventyfive y . I wish to say something to you, ihis afternoon, of the part which chemistry has had in bringing about this wonderful age in our surroundings. Our science goes back to the dark ages id before for its beginnings, but we, as mists, liaven't much reason to be proud i our intellectual pedigree. From th< * fifth to the fifteenth century, those who were known as chemists, or rather as alchemists, spent their time In searching Cor the philosopher's stone, which should change all things to gold, or for the elixir of life which should give eternal youth. The object which they sought was a sordid one, and while its attainment was q u i t generally believed to be possible, we have n ,n to think thai, many of the alehemM 3 used the little knowledge which they possessed to deceive olhers more i^noranl I ban themselves. We have been accustomed to nay that our roller knowledge has shown the folly of the alchemisl 'a dream. Piv< years ago a distin uished chemii t, in a public address, spol e of the d trine of (In <
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