Beyond Time and SpaceAuthor(s): William NewberrySource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Feb., 1947), p. 108Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/19308 .

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108 THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY

proteins, vitamins, alkaloids, hormones, antibiotics, and other substances of bio- logical importance. Some of these re- lationships are so basic that they account for a large amount of research activity in this field. The established value of amino acid therapy in the form of protein hydrolyzates is a matter of clinical record, notably in a series of articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Some

individual amino acids have definite value as pharmaceutical agents and as chemical intermediates; other uses of this sort will without doubt be developed. The place of individual amino acids in the treatment of specific deficiency states is beginning to receive evaluation. There can be no question that the amino acids are of great value in furnishing understanding in various fields of therapy.

BEYOND TIME AND SPACE

A gentleman of England eyed A falling apple, threaded a maze Of tangled thought, and thence descried The invisible sweep of the force that sways The uiviverse; an Austrian abbot Tended garden peas and saw The working of inscrutable law T hat molds all life in age-long habit Of growth; a lover of wisdom in A Prussian town, strolling each day Along the same somnific way Explored the farthest realms within The reach of reason.

A gentle Jew, Inscribing symnbols, quietly Encompassed all infinity; A wratliful one leafed slowly through A dusty mass of data stored In rows of books at London's hoard Of learning, like a cleric drudge- And found the lever that would budge The world.

The probers who pursue The quest of knowledge are the new Explorers; their minds range past the reach Of ploddingflesh to scale or breach Or vault the barriers that can Immure the groping thougits of man.

WILLIAM NEWBERRY

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