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and to the absence of compulsory science in theirs, 

 the comparison is unduly favourable. We are told 

 that science is materialistic and concerned with the 

 bread-and-butter side of life, whereas the humanistic 

 studies elevate human character and inspire human 

 ideals. Our criticism of these studies is that the 

 elevation of human ideals and inspiration of human 

 character has not progressed to keep pace with the 

 growth of physical power put into the hands of men 

 by science. They are ideals that cannot co-exist 

 with science without wrecking the world. As for the 

 bread-and-butter libel, our trouble is that scientific 

 knowledge and capacity in this country has been 

 valued so cheaply, whereas the road to prosperity 

 and honour has lain along the well-beaten and time- 

 honoured road. The smallest acquaintance with the 

 history of scientific progress would disclose what is a 

 commonplace to scientific men, that all the grandest 

 discoveries which have been subsequently exploited 

 for utilitarian ends and have brought in untold 

 millions of wealth to the commerce and industries of 

 the country, have been made uniformly by men, 

 without reward and without even the thought or 

 expectation of reward, labouring solely for pure love 

 of Truth. We are warned with unconscious humour 

 of the danger "of the divorce of science and the 

 scientific spirit from literature and art, from morality 

 and religion, and generally from the human element 

 of education." But the scientific man is not especially 

 deaf to the appeal which literature, music, painting 

 and sculpture, the ethics of human conduct, morality 

 and religion make to mankind in general, though he 

 may be more conscious of their limitations than 

 others. It is the ordinary man and his instructors, 

 the statesman, the headmaster, the poet, divine and 

 artist who, too often, through defects in their early 

 education, are both blind and deaf to the spirit of 



