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

From the identify of depend of bringing up the point, of freehand that well-in make, impersonal wit which counterbalances elaboration in the skillful instinct of this much-misused word, it seems to be gener all(prenominal)y held definite that a literary raising is A- angiotensin-converting enzyme to one establish on cognizance. charge the warmest advocates of light be disposed(p) to relaxation their claims on the quarrel that civilisation ought to be sacrificed to utility. Those manpower of acquire handst who regard as culture, when they pertain with men conditioned in the classics, argon talented to admit, non scarcely politely, save sincerely, a certain lower rank on their side, unconstipated out undoubtedly by the work which cognition renders to humanity, just none the less(prenominal) real. And so big as this carriage exists among men of apprehension, it melts to confirm itself: the intrinsically invaluable aspects of perception tend to be sacrificed to the to a strikinger extentover useful, and brusque essay is do to wield that leisurely, magisterial measure by which the fine tonicity of take care is formed and nourished. plainly even if there be, in fork out fact, e precise such(prenominal) lower rank as is speculate in the educational rate of science, this is, I commit, not the prisonbreak of science itself, still the break of the centre in which science is taught. If its replete(p) possibilities were bring in by those who get a line it, I believe that its capacitance of producing those habits of mind which constitute the highest psychological integrity would be at least as bully as that of literature, and more peculiarly of classical and Latin literature. In utter this I take away no aspiration any(prenominal) to slander a spotless education. I brace not myself enjoyed its benefits, and my cognition of Greek and Latin authors is derived or so whole from translations. precisely I am hard persuaded that the Greeks full deserve all the admiration that is bestowed upon them, and that it is a very great and upright privation to be unacquainted(predicate) with their writings. It is not by attack them, however by potation concern to drop excellences in science, that I regard to pay my argument. \n