Continuity 9 



thing, and intellect is only a part of it: 

 a recent part too, which therefore ne- 

 cessarily, though not consciously, suffers 

 from some of the defects of newness and 

 crudity, and should refrain from imagin- 

 ing itself the whole perhaps it is not 

 even the best part of human nature. 



The fact is that some of the best things 

 are, by abstraction, excluded from Science, 

 though not from Literature and Poetry; 

 hence perhaps an ancient mistrust or 

 dislike of science, typified by the Pro- 

 methean legend. Science is systematised 

 and metrical knowledge, and in regions 

 where measurement cannot be applied 

 it has small scope; or, as Mr. Balfour 

 said the other day at the opening of 

 a new wing of the National Physical 

 Laboratory: 



Science depends on measurement, and things 

 not measurable are therefore excluded, or tend 

 to be excluded, from its attention. But Life 

 and Beauty and Happiness are not measurable. 

 [And then characteristically he adds:] If there 

 could be a unit of happiness, Politics might 

 begin to be scientific. 



