ins, and had to proach. Y slow! ers the efore he co ately, are mar ildren: nan her chi locution of the scholar's path. They legislated for th schools solemnly, and if not with compl wisdom, always at least with accurate ide Educational (like all other) legislation n adays is largely in the hands of illiter people, and the illiterate will take good c that their illiteracy is not made a reproach them. If any one chooses to say that cult must always be in the hands of an oligarc and that the oligarchy has not been touch I will only ask him to consider the pupils a the teaching in most private schools. In end, prestige values are going to tell; and vast bulk of our population will see to it t the prestige values are not absolutely unatta able to them. The great fortunes have ma their way to the top-yes, really to the top. many cases there has been time for a qu veneer of grammar to be laid over their or nal English. In many cases there has not; a no one cares. The custodians of culture can afford to care; for their custody must eith be endowed or be forsaken. Oh, yes, there are a few Brahmins left; b n what New England village, now, ter or the scholar looked up to as municipal wisdom because he is a ? Is he a "good mixer"? That is sk: I have heard them. Once it was America for a poor man to hope to = children, if they deserved it, the tellect and of the spirit. Now it no or the poor themselves have defiled They are a different kind of poor, nd they have become an active and majority, with hands that pick When they no longer need to pick ey carry their infection higher and free gift. And they have been aided mins themselves; who, having dablogy pour se désoeuvrer, and then for ke, are now finding that sociology atter of life and death, and endow -as if one should endow chairs of tion. But self-preservation is not never will be; and no study of the 1 customs of savages or slums can contact with the best that has been said in the world." [ 84 ] graded. If N bargain-counter ence," would she ers? Science has has also pushed content with fillin to supersede ever the super-eminen all philosophy ou clings to its skirts all learning that has bribed the sk material comforts not live by bread which proceedeth it has retorted tha tically out of the has issued in its rigorous and more the Roman Church anything so oppres cent or guilty, into supremely for phy itself to the physic able: we could sh souls in peace. But bargain-counter Orientalism anything but "s ence,” would she have drawn so many follo ers? Science has done great things for us; has also pushed us hopelessly back. For, n content with filling its own place, it has tri to supersede everything else. It has challeng the super-eminence of religion; it has turne all philosophy out of doors except that whi clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt all learning that does not depend on it; and has bribed the skeptics by giving us immen material comforts. To the plea, "Man sha not live by bread alone, but by every wo which proceedeth out of the mouth of God it has retorted that no word proceeds authe tically out of the mouth of God save what has issued in its own translations. It is mo rigorous and more exclusive than the Index the Roman Church. The Inquisition never d anything so oppressive as to put all men, inn cent or guilty, into a laboratory. Science car supremely for physical things. If it restricte itself to the physical world, it would be tole able: we could shut ourselves away with ou souls in peace. But it must control the soul the intellectual world. The insidiscience lies in its claim to be not a a method. You could ignore a subbject is all-inclusive. But a method y be applied to anything within the nsciousness. Small wonder that the terature turns into philology, the -tory into archæology, and the study and æsthetics into physical psycholthe finer appeals of philosophy and painting and natural beauty, science neddle; because about their direct e thought and wills of men it can g valuable. You cannot determine a Velasquez by putting your finger e of the man who is looking at it; e of Amiens Cathedral by register ation of his internal muscles; or of Cañon of the Colorado by declaring -ception of beauty is a function of loes it matter very much, at the the enraptured reader or observer and such a work of art was the It of a given set of conditions. The [86] things ony. With noth explanations. Far be it from me to deny t geology, biology, physics, have given us apprehended vistas down which to stray only, strictly speaking, it forbids the strayi The moment the layman's imagination beg to profit, begins to get real exhilaration fr scientific discoveries, it contributes someth unwelcome to science. Science has its own st value; in the end we are all profoundly affec by its gains in the field of fact. One's qua is not with science as such, but with science demanding an intellectual and spiritual heg ony. With nothing less than hegemony, h ever, will science be content. Now if it is not yet clear what effect all t must have on culture, a few words may m it clearer. The great danger of the scient obsession is not the destruction of all thi that are not science, but the slow infection those things. If the laboratory is your r test, then most philosophies and all art are good. The scientists are not good philosoph and they are not good artists; and if scienc to rule everywhere, we must shelve philosop |