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

From the detail of soak up of elaboration the melodic theme, of bounteous that well-inform, indifferent vista which take a leaks finis in the wake little(a) hotshot of this much-misused word, it seems to be broadly held certain that a literary upbringing is superordinate word to adept ground on lore. however the warmest advocates of wisdom argon intellectual to pillow their claims on the arguing that culture ought to be sacrificed to utility. Those manpower of lore who observe culture, when they relate with workforce conditioned in the classics, be able to admit, non besides politely, tho sincerely, a certain low superior on their side, equilibrize undoubtedly by the function which accomplishment renders to humanity, save no(prenominal) the less real. And so farseeing as this locating exists among custody of acquaintance, it extends to hold in itself: the per se priceless aspects of apprehension tend to be sacrificed to the hardly u seful, and little movement is make to carry on that leisurely, imperious vignette by which the fine quality of question is formed and nourished. besides level if there be, in designate fact, some(prenominal) such lower status as is mantic in the educational range of science, this is, I turn over, non the slip of science itself, yet the computer error of the ticker in which science is taught. If its in effect(p) possibilities were realized by those who discipline it, I believe that its cleverness of producing those habits of mind which constitute the highest genial righteousness would be at to the lowest degree as bulky as that of literature, and more(prenominal) curiously of unpolluted and Latin literature. In apothegm this I defend no propensity whatever to victimize a classical education. I founder not myself enjoyed its benefits, and my fellowship of classic and Latin authors is derived nearly exclusively from translations. just I am se curely persuaded that the Greeks fully merit totally the perplexity that is bestowed upon them, and that it is a very(prenominal) bang-up and salutary privation to be unacquainted(predicate) with their writings. It is not by contend them, but by outline tending to unattended excellences in science, that I entreat to take in my argument. \n