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Science Is Vastly More Stimulating To The Imagination Than The Classics.

I Have Tried To Show Why I Believe That The Biologist Is The Most Romantic Figure On Earth At The Present Day. At First Sight He Seems To Be Just A Poor Little Scrubby Underpaid Man, Groping Blindly Amid The Mazes Of The Ultra-microscopic, Engaging In Bitter And Lifelong Quarrels Over The Nephridia Of Flatworms, Waking Perhaps One Morning To Find That Someone Whose Name He Has Never Heard Has Demolished By A Few Crucial Experiments The Work Which He Had Hoped Would Render Him Immortal.

The Creator, If He Exists, Has A Special Preference For Beetles.

To The Biologist The Problem Of Socialism Appears Largely As A Problem Of Size.

And If We Must Educate Our Poets And Artists In Science, We Must Educate Our Masters, Labour And Capital, In Art.