24 SCIENCE AND METHOD. 



the world, it is due to the fact that the savages loved 

 garish colours and the blatant noise of the drum, which 

 appealed to their senses, while the Greeks loved the 

 intellectual beauty hidden behind sensible beauty, and 

 that it is this beauty which gives certainty and strength 

 to the intelligence. 



No doubt Tolstoi would be horrified at such a 

 triumph, and he would refuse to admit that it could 

 be truly useful. But this disinterested pursuit of truth 

 for its own beauty is also wholesome, and can make 

 men better. I know very well there are disappoint- 

 ments, that the thinker does not always find the 

 serenity he should, and even that some scientists have 

 thoroughly bad tempers. 



Must we therefore say that science should be 

 abandoned, and morality alone be studied ? Does 

 any one suppose that moralists themselves are entirely 

 above reproach when they have come down from the 

 pulpit? 



