110 THE NEW SCIENCE AND ENGLISH LITERATURE 



script which the world would not now willingly let perish. A 

 bricklayer was worth forty philosophers of comedy; and yet the 

 period produced some immortal names. One is led to guess 

 shrewdly that the superficiality of the scientist in comedy is due 

 largely to the superficial knowledge on the part of the play-writers. 

 To them it was a humor and nothing more. 



