The Idolatry of Science 



writing consciously or unconsciously leans, is 

 not a work of Science. 



And a man does not learn to hold senates 

 in awe, to " create, subvert or reform," to 

 wield over his fellows so majestic a sway as 

 that it can be said of him that " no idle 

 contest for ministerial victories sunk him to 

 the vulgar level of the great,'.' by studying 

 conic sections or the higher mathematics, or 

 the excrement of earth worms. 



And as of great writing and great speech, 

 so of great painting, which is another of the 

 noble forms of expression by which man 

 educes the emotions that dominate his heart. 



To the man of Science, I suppose, the 

 end of painting or drawing is to reproduce 

 on the flat what he sees in the round ; and 

 to him therefore a coloured photograph 

 should precisely accomplish the end in view 

 and should in his opinion fulfil any reasonable 

 man's most exacting requirements in this 

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