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and Science, whose is all that is best in the 

 passing sublunary world," as Richard de 

 Bury calls * 'the Prince of the Schooles. ' ' In 

 Gulliver's voyage to Laputa he paid a visit 

 to the little island of Glubbdubdrib, whose 

 Governor, you remember, had an Endorian 

 command over the spirits, such as Sir Oli- 

 ver Lodge or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might 

 envy. When Aristotle and his commenta- 

 tors were summoned, to Gulliver's surprise 

 they were strangers, for the reason that hav- 

 ing so horribly misrepresented Aristotle's 

 meaning to posterity, a consciousness of 

 guilt and shame kept them far away from 

 him in the lower world. Such shame, I fear, 

 will make the shades of many classical dons 

 of this university seek shelter with the com- 

 mentators when they realize their neglect of 

 one of the most fruitful of all the activities 

 of the Master. In biology Aristotle speaks 

 for the first time the language of modern sci- 

 ence, and indeed he seems to have been first 



