100 Years Ago

摘要

In this day of encyclopaedias numerous and ponderous, one is often struck with the fact that in spite of the manifest care and conscientious thought bestowed by the responsible editors, the omissions and evidences of discontinuity of treatment, and lack of recognition of the prime purposes of the compilation, are as noteworthy as the imposing array of the results of our steadily advancing knowledge is startling ... As an illustration, take the word "research," or any of the associated terms - "discovery," "experiment," "investigation," and "observation." Turning to the index volumes of the ninth and tenth editions of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," I find but two references in which the word "research" appears - one to the exploring vessel, the Research, and the other to "research degrees."