The Idolatry of Science 



pounds to erect, and cannot even be claimed 

 as a lucrative adventure, and I hope most 

 cultivated people would rather go round or 

 be ferried across than see the beautiful Firth 

 of Forth bridged by a monstrous arrange- 

 ment of painted iron. It is always acclaimed 

 as the last and most splendid achievement 

 of Science, and there we can appropriately 

 leave it. 



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