THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE : 

 A FORECAST 



Once let that [the human ideal] slip out of the thought, and 

 science is of no more use than the invocations in the Egyptian 

 papiri. — Richard Jefferies. 



IT would appear then, from the preceding 

 paper, that in some sense a mistake has 

 been made in the method of modern 

 scientific work ; not that the vast amount of 

 labour expended in it has been altogether wasted, 

 for in return for this there is a mass of practical 

 results and detailed observations to shov/ ; but 

 that in attempting to solve the problem of science 

 by the intellect alone, a radical mistake has been 

 made which could only land us in absurdity, and 

 that this mistake has for the time being also vitiated 

 the results that have been attained. For — in 

 reference to this last point — the divorce of the 

 intellectual from the emotional has caused a great 

 portion of our scientific observations to become 

 merely pedantic and trifling ; while it has turned 

 the practical results — as industrial and military 

 machinery, etc. — into engines of evil as often as 

 into engines of good. 



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