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Minerva, with a passionate love, but the chaste 

 goddess never married. Yet she conferred upon 

 mankind nearly as many arts as Prometheus." 



SOCIALIZED SCIENCE. But how does the idea 

 of science for its own sake harmonize with that 

 expressed in Spencer's sentence: "Science is for 

 Life, not Life for Science " ? There is no antithesis. 



1. Science is certainly for the development of 

 life, but "life" must not be conceived of nar- 

 rowly. "Is not the life more than meat, and the 

 body than raiment?" 



2. Moreover, for educated men in modern 

 civilized communities, life must be to some 

 extent for science, if it is to have any degree of 

 completeness. 



3. Our point has been that Science will do 

 best for the citizen if it is left to attend to its own 

 business. 



On the other hand, while we may not be able 

 to say of any specialized line of scientific inquiry 

 that it is not of value to human life, there are some 

 which are more promising and urgent than others. 

 Many kinds of quantitative descriptive work, 

 which afford very enjoyable occupation to natu- 

 ralists and very useful disciplining material for 

 apprentices, are not particularly urgent. And 

 eventually we must admit that men of science 

 are the intellectual advisers and educators of the 

 great mass of humanity who are concerned with 



