682 ON THE RELATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE TO ART. 
ular teaching preserves its ornamental character, while the results of 
scientific research only claim that kind of beauty which in literature 
corresponds to mechanical beauty. In this sense, as I long ago ven- 
tured to indicate here on a similar occasion, a strictly scientific paper 
may, in tasteful hands, be made as finished a piece of writing as a work 
of fiction. To strive after such perfection will always repay the trouble 
to men of science; for it is the best means of testing whether a chain 
of reasoning, embracing a series of observations and conclusions, is 
faultlessly complete. 
And this kind of beauty, which often graces, unconsciously and un- 
sought for, the utterances of genius, will no doubt be also found to 
adorn Leibnitz’s writings. 
