CHAPTER II 



THE GREAT USURPATION 



"Great God ! I'd rather be 

 A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, 

 So might I standing on this pleasant lee, 

 Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; 

 Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 

 Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." 



Wordsworth. 



THE elevation of Science to the supreme 

 place in human affairs, and the claims made 

 for it to a dominant position in the education 

 of the young, constitute a usurpation that 

 threatens to become intolerable. 



The supreme consideration in human affairs 

 is conduct, and what is the attitude of Science 

 towards it ? 



Science drives full tilt towards the destruc- 

 tion of personal responsibility : it relegates 

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