Natural Science, Vol. 1: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress; March-December, 1892 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Natural Science, Vol. 1: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress; March-December, 1892

Both naturalists and the public have suffered in consequence. The former have lost the stimulus of popular sympathy and criticism, and the contraction of the recruiting ground has diminished the number of the unattached local workers upon whose efforts progress in certain departments ultimately depends. Moreover, an ever increasing proportion of the new recruits have entered upon their work with minds cast in the mould of one of the orthodox universities or schools, and carry it on rather as a means of livelihood than of any special enthusiasm for the cause. Hence Science has had to suffer, on the one hand, from a certain degree of lukewarmness, and, on the other, from a conservatism that has had its origin in impatience at unsympathetic and ignorant control.

The result, while it has been detrimental to Science, has been no less injurious to the cause of popular education. Tennyson, in his Despair, represents, with powerful pathos, the condition of a man whose peace of mind had been shattered by the teachings of a science which he woefully misunderstood it had destroyed the foundations of his old beliefs without substituting anything in their stead it had broken the old moorings, and left the man to drift aimlessly instead of endowing him with the strength and stability with which to use the intellectual liberty he had gained. The history of our literature shows that this case has been by no means a rare one.

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