CHAPTER IV 



SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION 



" The office of the scholar is a noble one. He is set 

 apart to a kind of priesthood. He is the appointed 

 guardian of the ideal in art and life, of the noble traditions 

 of refinement and magnanimity, of great fames and great 

 actions, that the one be not obscured by the incense 

 burned before false gods, nor the memory of the other 

 cease from among men to strengthen and inspire." 



Lowell 



ARISTOTLE was once asked how much an 

 educated man was superior to an uneducated 

 one, and he replied, " As much as a living man 

 is to a dead one." 



But the education of which he thus spoke 

 was not the acquiring of a knowledge of 

 mathematics, or whatever laws of Nature had 

 at that date been ascertained, but the study 

 of and familiarity with all that the wise 

 scholars, learned historians, inspired poets, 

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