12 GREEK SCIENCE AND 



century B.C., when Pythagoras was working out his 

 first formulated conceptions of the relation of number to 

 form, or whether we look to the last vitally original* 

 works of Greek Science in the second century C.E., when 

 Galen was giving to the world those ideas on anatomy 

 y'and physiology which were to control medical thought 

 for a millennium and a half, from end to end Greek 

 Science betrays its relationship to Greek Philosophy. 

 It is thus in Jkeeping with the rest of the storyjthat both 

 Pythagoras and Galen were in intimate relation with 

 philosophical sects. 



No such ancestry can be ascribed to Modern Science, 

 and herein we differ from the Greeks. The exponents 

 of our modern scientific system have seldom sought to 

 follow the Greek metaphysician in his attempts to pass 

 the flaming ramparts of the world. Until lately it was 

 the custom to regard the period of the Revival of 

 Learning as identical with that of the Revival of Science, 

 but the facts will not accommodate themselves to this 

 view, and it may easily be shown that the roots of the 

 scientific revival extend much further back in time than 

 the Renaissance. But the history of the childhood of 

 Modern Science has not been adequately written, nor 

 are the facts yet in our hands for such work. Before it 

 is possible much more research into sources is needed. 

 It is some reflection on the humanistic education that 

 has prevailed for four hundred years that while the 

 records of ancient philosophy have been explored from 

 end to end, we still await the material for any com- 

 prehensive statement of the developmental stages in the 

 characteristic mode of thought of our own age. While 

 scholars ransack the monasteries of the East or the dust- 

 heaps of Egypt for such remains of Greek literature as 

 may yet be recovered from the fragments of parchment 



