Excerpt from Germany in Science, the German Claim to Scientific Leadership Refuted Human knowledge as it exists today represents a gradual development. The science of the twentieth century is differ ent from the science Of the first century, as that differed from the science of the sixtieth century before our era. In com parison with the accumulated learning of the priests of Isis, the accumulated learning of today differs as light differs from darkness. The greatest advances in science have been made in the last four centuries. The most rapid steps in the acquisition and ordering of knowledge have been taken within the past one hundred and fifty years: I will not now endeavor to point out the reasons for this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.