The Idolatry of Science 



Science from descending with ignominy from 

 the throne it has temporarily usurped. 



Our sentimental faculties are far stronger 

 and nobler than our cogitative ; feeling must 

 ever be superior to intellect in the work of 

 man, and conscience a better guide of life 

 than calculation. The highest manifestation 

 of human power yet vouchsafed to us in this 

 world is the creation of poetry, and since the 

 dawn of history the poets have accordingly 

 been crowned as supreme among men. 

 Feeling lies at the ultimate foundation of all 

 the greatest deeds of men. 



Science never elevated conduct, nor 

 aggravated virtue ; it never bid anyone 

 sacrifice his life for another, nor lead a 

 forlorn hope ; it never illumined charity nor 

 condemned cruelty ; its one positive perfected 

 concrete human production in the modern 

 world is the German. 



Sympathy existed before Science was. 

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