306 BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN PROBLEMS 



that the number of highly trained research scientists 

 will always be small, it is a grave and costly error 

 to maintain that the spirit of research is not possible 

 or desirable for the many. For it is true that no two 

 lives, however humble, are alike; that every man 

 must face and solve his individual problems. For 

 him the spirit of research will be a help in solving 

 those problems by making him far more intelligent 

 and adaptable and self-controlled than would other- 

 wise be the case. In order to be of real service, the 

 spirit of research must have become a habit of mind, 

 and this can only happen where there has been sound 

 training in the elementary data of science, and in 

 generalization from them. It is hardly to be 

 expected that such training will ever become the 

 privilege of the mass of the populace, but there is 

 every reason to think it will in time be extended to a 

 much larger proportion of the population than now 

 receive it. The benefits of such training will be not 

 merely the better development of intellect, but the 

 fuller growth of character. Where it is possible for 

 a child to have the advantage that comes from a 

 classical training, this should certainly not be 

 excluded; but, in general, where a choice has to be 

 made between the scientific and the classical, the 

 former is to be relied on as a superior guide to the 

 unraveling of many of the perplexities of life. 



It may happen that the training of the intellect 

 is so conducted as to make this education an efficient 

 help in most of the relations of life that have to do 



