The Idolatry of Science 



and divine philosophers had written about 

 man and his life in this world. The study 

 of Science may be of some slight service in 

 the training of the mind in accuracy, and 

 certainly Euclid and mathematics induce the 

 reason to exercise itself in a just and correct 

 manner. But these processes of the mind 

 leave a man's judgment unassisted, they have 

 no effect upon his actions, they have no 

 influence upon his taste, nor upon his 

 emotions, nor upon his morals. They will 

 indeed to an appreciable extent sterilize his 

 emotions, depress his patriotism, and oppose 

 his inclinations towards unselfishness, by 

 leaving these qualities untouched by the 

 generous stimulation that a study of letters 

 will inevitably educe. 



"The proper study of mankind is man." 



In a recent Parliamentary Report on "The 



Position of Natural Science in the Educational 



System of Great Britain " the following 



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