DIVORCE OF SCIENCE FROM EDUCATION 7 



teach him to be content with penury should be 

 capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth. 



A single modern machine does the work of tens 

 of thousands of labourers, releasing them from the 

 benumbing and soul-destroying effect of unremittent 

 physical labour. The very same movement which 

 lightened the task of men, favoured women even 

 more. The minimisation of individual brute strength 

 in the affairs of life could hardly do otherwise. 



ITS EFFECT ON EDUCATION. 



Each year science increases by so many millions 

 of horse-power its patient armies of inanimate slaves. 

 The adoption of slave labour by Imperial Rome, we 

 are taught, laid that mighty civilisation in the dust. 

 Already the new slave of science has laid in ruins 

 all the ineradicable doctrines derived from the history 

 and experience of a time when the physical environ- 

 ment was unchanging. Those who pleaded just for 

 one or two at least of the ancient seats of learning to 

 be left untouched and unreformed amid the startling 

 and dangerous innovations of science, as a sanctuary 

 for what was noble and enduring in the thought of 

 the past, may have perpetuated an anachronism, 

 safe enough in a monastery, but infinitely more 

 dangerous than innovation where it concerns the 

 education of future generations of public men. If 

 men so trained had been debarred from holding 

 public positions in the State, or even if they had 

 been regarded, so far as their training was serious, 

 as specialists, instead of becoming the fashion and 

 being preferred as the traditional type which all 

 systems of general education should strive to pro- 

 duce, no possible objection could be taken. But it 

 is absurd that the administration of a modern State 

 should be left to men ignorant of science and of its 



