Woman in Science / With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind

AUTHOR OF UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA, ALONG THE ANDES AND DOWN THE AMAZON, ETC. Que e piu bella in donna que savere? Dante, Convito. NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1913 Copyright, 1913, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America TO MRS. CHARLES M. SCHWAB AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE TO HER CHARMING PERSONALITY GOODNESS OF HEART AND NOBILITY OF SOUL THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED WITH THE BEST WISHES OF THE AUTHOR.

The following pages are the outcome of studies begun many years ago in Greece and Italy. While wandering through the famed and picturesque land of the Hellenes, rejoicing in the countless beauties of the islands of the Ionian and Ægean seas or scaling the heights of Helicon and Parnassus, all so redolent of the storied past, I saw on every side tangible evidence of that marvelous race of men and women whose matchless achievements have been the delight and inspiration of the world for nearly three thousand years. But it was especially while contemplating, from the portico of the Parthenon, the magnificent vista which there meets the charmed vision, that I first fully experienced the spell of the favored land of Hellas, so long the home of beauty and of intellect. The scene before me was indeed enchanting beyond expression; for, every ruin, every marble column, every rock had its history, and evoked the most precious memories of men of godlike thoughts and of
A thousand glorious actions that may claim Triumphal laurels and immortal fame.
It was a tranquil and balmy night in midsummer. The sun, leaving a gorgeous afterglow, had about an hour before disappeared behind the azure-veiled mountains of Ithaca, where, in the long ago, lived and loved the hero and the heroine of the incomparable Odyssey. The full moon, just rising above the plain of Marathon, intensified the witchery of that memorable spot consecrated by the valor of patriots battling victoriously against the invading hordes of Asia. Hard by was the Areopagus, where St. Paul preached to the superstitious Athenians on The Unknown God. Almost adjoining it was the Agora, where Socrates was wont to hold converse with noble and simple on the sublimest questions which can engage the human mind. Not distant was the site of the celebrated Painted Porch, where Zeno developed his famous system of ethics. In another quarter were the shady walks of the Lyceum, where Aristotle, the master of those who know, lectured before an admiring concourse of students from all parts of Hellas. Farther afield, on the banks of the Cephissus, was the grove of Academus, where the divine Plato expounded that admirable idealism which, with Aristotelianism, has controlled the progress of speculative thought for more than twenty centuries, and enunciated those admirable doctrines which have become the common heritage of humanity.