The Idolatry of Science 



ible mountain fortresses, and all the rest of 

 their marvels find their support in the prone- 

 ness of folly to believe in the incredible or in 

 what is beyond its comprehension. 



To the ordinary man, much of Science is 

 beyond his apprehension in a manner that 

 letters can never be. 



The classics and the poets and historians 

 can be appreciated and understood by any 

 intelligent reader, but the differential cal- 

 culus and the whole nomenclature of sines 

 and cosines and coefficients and the rest of 

 the symbols of the higher mathematics are 

 of course quite incomprehensible to any but 

 those who have devoted themselves to that 

 sterile and dull mechanical industry in which 

 I regret that I wasted some years of my 

 youth. 



The abracadabra of Science accordingly, 

 like the incantations and jargon of the 

 astrologers and necromancers of the middle 

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