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the fundamental problem of bread and butter, 

 with the science known as "Brodwissenschaft." 



Therefore, since scientific investigators are as 

 liable to preoccupation as other men, it is well 

 that prominence should be given to the humane 

 ideal of socialized science. Bacon got at it long 

 ago in the description which he gives of the true 

 spirit of the scientific investigator in a famous 

 passage in the Advancement of Learning: "This 

 is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowl- 

 edge if contemplation and action be more nearly 

 and straitly conjoined and united together than 

 they have been; for men have entered into a 

 desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon 

 a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; some- 

 times to entertain their minds with variety and 

 delight; sometimes for ornament and reputa- 

 tion; and sometimes to enable them to victory 

 of wit and contradiction; and most times for 

 lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to 

 give a true account of their gift of reason to the 

 benefit of man; as if there were sought in knowl- 

 edge a couch whereupon to repose a searching and 

 restless spirit; or a tarasse for a wandering and 

 variable mind to walk up and down with a fair 

 prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind 

 to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding 

 ground for strife and contention; or a shop for 

 profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for 



