SCIENCE AND CULTURE 



By Emile Boutroux 



Science and Culture — few words are heard 

 more often in our day and few words cause 

 so many controversies and discussions on all 

 sides. 



\ Does culture — to use the word in its exact 

 sense — arise naturally from the progress of 



\ science or has culture her own conditions, her 

 own laws, her progress or her decadence in a 



. domain distinct from the true domain of 

 science? 



More than this, might it not be maintained 

 that science in the state she has reached during 

 the ages, far from being favorable to culture 



, in the classic sense of the word, rather tends, 

 by the growing importance she gives to spe- 



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