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 show ; 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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