SCIENCE AND CULTURE 19 



punished him by insinuating that his brain 

 probably never quite recovered from the de- 

 rangement which twice attacked it. 



Without sharing the fury of Auguste 

 Comte, one can notice that scientific work 

 presupposes more and more an extreme spe- 

 ciahzation, and that, in conformity with this 

 requirement, the system of faculties distinct 

 and autonomous enjoj^s, in our universities, 

 a growing favor. In perfect calmness we 

 can observe that, in our society greedy for 

 progress and above all for scientific progress, 

 the certificates for elementary studies are, 

 more and more, the only ones which still keep 

 a general character. Have we not therefore 

 the right to suppose that, if men were guided 

 by science alone, they would be comparable, 

 looking at society as a whole, to workmen in 

 ^ factories, each one shut up to the special task 

 which has been assigned to him. 



But, you will say, does not man remain with 

 his social sense, with his love for the traditions 

 of his country and his race, with his ideal as- 

 pirations which the role of a wheel in a ma- 

 chine can never satisfy? Are not these real 



