PREFACE 



THE attention recently given to the position of science 

 in the State, its relation to industry, and its relative 

 neglect in education, suggests that the present is an 

 appropriate time for putting into final shape a project 

 contemplated for many years and practically completed 

 before the outbreak of existing hostilities. This book 

 represents the result ; and its main purposes are to 

 promote a more sympathetic attitude towards those who 

 are engaged in the pursuit of scientific truth and to 

 remove the widespread misconception which prevails as 

 to the meaning and influence of science. 



To the popular mind, a man of science is a callous 

 necromancer who has cut himself off from communion 

 with his fellows, and has thereby lost the throbbing 

 and compassionate heart of a full life : he is a Faust 

 who has not yet made a bargain with Mephistopheles, 

 and is therefore without human interest. Scientific and 

 humanistic studies are, indeed, supposed to be anti- 

 pathetic, and to represent opposing qualities ; so that 

 it has become common to associate science with all that 

 is cold and mechanistic in our being, and to believe 

 that the development of the more spiritual parts of 

 man's nature belongs essentially to other departments 

 of intellectual activity. 



When scientific work is instituted solely with the 

 object of securing commercial gain, its correlative is 



