The Insidiousness Of Science Lies In Its

When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are Not Mere Plagiarists Of Dead Eccentrics, They Lack, In Almost Every Case, Thehistoric Sense.

Culture' Means A Long Receptivity To Things Of The Mind And The Spirit.

[science] Has Challenged The Super-eminence Of Religion; It Has Turned All Philosophy Out Of Doors Except That Which Clings To Its Skirts; It Has Thrown Contempt On All Learning That Does Not Depend On It; And It Has Bribed The Skeptics By Giving Us Immense Material Comforts.

Simplicity Is An Acquired Taste. Mankind, Left Free, Instinctively Complicates Life.

... There Are Some Who, Believing That All Is For The Best In The Best Of Possible Worlds, And That To-morrow Is Necessarily Better Than To-day, May Think That If Culture Is A Good Thing We Shall Infallibly Be Found To Have More Of It That We Had A Generation Since; And That If We Can Be Shown Not To Have More Of It, It Can Be Shown Not To Be Worth Seeking.