The Idolatry of Science 



rightly founded on experience and were 

 therefore not to be gainsayed, but whose 

 opinions on contemporary human affairs were 

 foolish, and who was in actual society a bore. 



But such a case is the exception. 



The man of letters whose mind is stored 

 with all that the wise and eloquent and witty 

 and inspired have written about the actions, 

 aspirations and thoughts of men, unless he is 

 dumb, must inevitably be the most agreeable 

 of companions ; whereas the man of Science 

 with his mind stuffed with the changeless 

 laws of physics and the dead phenomena of 

 matter must ever be a dull companion ; and 

 man being a social creature, not the least 

 desirable object of education must be to 

 fit him for pleasant association with his 

 fellows. 



And let those who are for ever extolling 

 Science as the most essential part of the 

 education of a man to fit him for life, 

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