ABSTRACT
The primary aim of science is the discovery of the nature and laws of things and events, so that we may understand and explain them. Such knowledge of things and events always has the higher utility of enriching human life with new interests and helping intelligent people to take their orientation in the great world in which they live their brief life. The foregoing reflections may help to elucidate the somewhat intricate relations between science and technology. Science, or pure science, is concerned with the discovery of truth; technology is concerned with the invention of new things and processes, or the improvement of old ones. Agriculture is probably the oldest of human industries. The practical Romans made indeed considerable progress in the art on empirical lines; but their achievements were forgotten or neglected during the Middle Ages, and the modern period found agriculture in a rather primitive condition.
