Department 21. Jurisprudence

Sec. A. International Law B. Const.i.tutional Law C. Private Law

Department 22. Social Science

Sec. A. The Family B. The Rural Community C. The Urban Community D. The Industrial Group E. The Dependent Group F. The Criminal Group

Division G. Social Culture

Department 23. Education

Sec. A. Educational Theory B. The School C. The College D. The University E. The Library

Department 24. Religion

Sec. A. General Religious Education B. Professional Religious Education C. Religious Agencies D. Religious Work E. Religious Influence: Personal F. Religious Influence: Social

PURPOSE AND PLAN OF THE CONGRESS

The idea of the Congress grows out of the thought that the subdivision and multiplication of specialties in science has reached a stage at which investigators and scholars may derive both inspiration and profit from a general survey of the various fields of learning, planned with a view of bringing the scattered sciences into closer mutual relations.

The central purpose is the unification of knowledge, an effort toward which seems appropriate on an occasion when the nations bring together an exhibit of their arts and industries. An a.s.semblage is therefore to be convened at which leading representatives of theoretical and applied sciences shall set forth those general principles and fundamental conceptions which connect groups of sciences, review the historical development of special sciences, show their mutual relations and discuss their present problems.

The speakers to treat the various themes are selected in advance from the European and American continents. The discussions will be arranged on the following general plan:--

After the opening of the Congress on Monday afternoon, September 19, will follow, on Tuesday forenoon, addresses on main divisions of science and its applications, the general theme being the unification of each of the fields treated. These will be followed by two addresses on each of the twenty-four great departments of knowledge. The theme of one address in each case will be the Fundamental Conceptions and Methods, while the other will set forth the progress during the last century. The preceding addresses will be delivered by Americans, making the work of the first two days the contribution of American scholars.

On the third day, with the opening of the sections, the international work will begin. One hundred twenty-eight sectional meetings will be held on the four remaining days of the Congress, at each of which two papers will be read, the theme of one being suggested by the relations of the special branch treated to other branches; the other by its present problems. Three hours will be devoted to each sectional meeting, thus enabling each hearer to attend eight such meetings, if he so desires. The programme is so arranged that related subjects will be treated, as far as possible, at different times. The length of the princ.i.p.al addresses being limited to forty-five minutes each, there will remain at least one hour for five or six brief communications in each section. The addresses in each department will be collected and published in a special volume.

It is hoped that the living influence of this meeting will be yet more important than the formal addresses, and that the scholars whose names are announced in the following programme of speakers and chairmen will form only a nucleus for the gathering of thousands who feel in sympathy with the efforts to bring unity into the world of knowledge.

ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS

PRESIDENT OF THE EXPOSITION: HON. DAVID R. FRANCIS, A.M., LL.D.

DIRECTOR OF CONGRESSES, HOWARD J. ROGERS, A.M., LL.D.

_Universal Exposition, 1904._

ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, PH.D., LL.D.

_President of Columbia University, Chairman._

WILLIAM R. HARPER, PH.D., LL.D.

_President of the University of Chicago._

R. H. JESSE, PH.D., LL.D.

_President of the University of Missouri._

HENRY S. PRITCHETT, PH.D., LL.D.

_President of the Ma.s.sachusetts Inst.i.tute of Technology._

HERBERT PUTNAM, LITT.D., LL.D.

_Librarian of Congress._

FREDERICK J. V. SKIFF, A.M.

_Director of the Field Columbian Museum._

OFFICERS OF THE CONGRESS

PRESIDENT: SIMON NEWCOMB, PH.D., LL.D.

_Retired Professor U. S. N._

VICE-PRESIDENTS: HUGO MuNSTERBERG, PH.D., LL.D.

_Professor of Psychology in Harvard University._

ALBION W. SMALL, PH.D., LL.D.

_Professor of Sociology in The University of Chicago._

HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS: RIGHT HONORABLE JAMES BRYCE, M.P.

GREAT BRITAIN.

M. GASTON DARBOUX, FRANCE.

PROFESSOR WILHELM WALDEYER, GERMANY.

DR. OSKAR BACKLUND, RUSSIA.

PROFESSOR THEODORE ESCHERICH, AUSTRIA.

SIGNOR ATTILIO BRUNIALTI, ITALY.

PROFESSOR N. HOZUMI, j.a.pAN.