 Section 0, Introduction of Creative Chemistry. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Adam Marcicic, Alexandria, Virginia, 2010. Creative Chemistry by Edwin E. Slosson Introduction by Julius Stiglitz, formerly President of the American Chemical Society, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Chicago. The recent war as never before in the history of the world brought to the nations of the earth, a realization of the vital place which the science of chemistry holds in the development of the resources of a nation. Some of the most picturesque features of this awakening reached the great public through the press. Thus, the adventurous trips of the Deutschland, with its cargoes of concentrated aniline dyes, valued at millions of dollars, emphasized as no other incident our former dependence upon Germany for these products of her chemical industries. The public read, too, that her chemists saved Germany from an early disastrous defeat both in the field of military operations and in the matter of economic supplies. Unquestionably, without the tremendous expansion of her plants for the production of nitrates and ammonia from the air by the process of Haber, Ostwald, and others of her great chemists, the war would have ended in 1915 or early in 1916 from exhaustion of Germany's supplies of nitrate explosives. If not indeed from exhaustion of her food supplies as a consequence of the lack of nitrate and ammonia fertilizer for her fields, inventions of substitutes for cotton, copper, rubber, wool, and many other basic needs have been reported. These feats of chemistry performed under the stress of dire necessity have, no doubt, excited the wonder and interest of our public. It is far more important at this time, however, when both for war and for peace needs the resources of our country are strained to the utmost, that the public should awaken to a clear realization of what this science of chemistry really means for mankind, to the realization that its wizardry permeates the whole life of the nation as a...