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of knowledge. Truly, knowledge is not virtue, but a 

 little more of it might sometimes help a man or a com- 

 munity away from vice. Science will not induce a man 

 to love his neighbour as himself, but it sometimes shows 

 him how to do it. 



(b) We must not be drawn from our thesis by the red 

 herring of the rival claims of Science and the Humanities. 

 This is too like making an antithesis between fresh air 

 and meals. We need in our education both Science and 

 the Humanities, and more of both, time for enjoying 

 which would be readily procurable with better methods 

 of teaching and learning, based in part on the physiology 

 thereof. The antithesis is a false one, for the Humanities 

 have their scientific side, and every Science has a 

 Humanity as its halo. In his descriptions and formula- 

 tions, the scientific investigator must, indeed, hold 

 feehng at a spear's length ; but if he has any bodily and 

 spiritual leisure at all, he is bound to attempt a more 

 synoptic view, trying, as Plato said, to take " a survey 

 of the universe of things." The study oi the magnalia 

 NaturcB is a brain-stretching discipline, but it also 

 enriches the life of feeling. 



(c) Beyond the additional control which the new 

 chemistry, the new physics, the new biology, and so 

 on, are giving into man's hands, there is, we have said, 

 the enrichment of the inner life of thought and feeling. 

 But beyond this again, in the social kingdom of man 

 there is the slowly growing systematisation of truth, 

 to which the contributions of Science are fundamental, 

 though one may not call them supreme. There is like- 



