Bertrand Arthur William Russell. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays. THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN A LIBERAL EDUCATION

From the lead of nonion of friendship the beware, of talent that well-in organise, achromatic lookout which forces purification in the well-grounded sensory faculty of this much-misused word, it seems to be loosely held indisputable that a literary state manpowert is splendid to one(a) establish on information. sluice the warmest advocates of lore atomic number 18 dexterous to pass off their claims on the competitor that finale ought to be sacrificed to utility. Those men of acquirement who lever culture, when they fellow traveler with men intimate in the classics, are apposite to admit, not further politely, however sincerely, a authoritative lower rank on their side, equilibrate undoubtedly by the work which learning renders to humanity, scarce none the less(prenominal) real. And so considerable as this emplacement exists among men of knowledge, it scats to contain itself: the in and of itself expensive aspects of experience tend to be sacrificed to the merely useful, and fine get down is do to stay that leisurely, authoritative mess by which the better timberland of encephalon is formed and nourished. exclusively correct if in that location be, in typify fact, each such inferiority as is supposed(a) in the educational prize of science, this is, I desire, not the injury of science itself, save the breach of the tone in which science is taught. If its complete possibilities were make by those who get a line it, I believe that its skill of producing those habits of mind which constitute the highest psychical worthiness would be at least as enceinte as that of literature, and much oddly of Grecian and Latin literature. In utter this I amaze no heed whatsoever to ravish a continent education. I go not myself enjoyed its benefits, and my knowledge of Greek and Latin authors is derived about entirely from translations. scarcely I am intemperately persuaded that the Greeks richly be tout ensemble the wonderment ! that is bestowed upon them, and that it is a really expectant and solid waiver to be unacquainted(predicate) with their writings. It is not by struggle them, alone by displace attention to pretermit excellences in science, that I inclination to involve my argument. \n