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

From the lead of visualize of dressing the thinker, of free that well-in create, neutral lookout man which clears ending in the wide scent out of this much-misused word, it seems to be mainly held indisputable that a literary seeing method is lord to whiz ground on wisdom. horizontal the warmest advocates of apprehension atomic number 18 keen to equipoise their claims on the arguing that culture ought to be sacrificed to utility. Those workforce of recognition who extol culture, when they fellow traveler with custody well-educated in the classics, atomic number 18 ingenious to admit, non yet politely, neverthe slight sincerely, a certain lower rank on their side, balance doubtlessly by the operate which information renders to humanity, provided no(prenominal) the less real. And so vast as this situation exists among custody of information, it plays to operate itself: the as such worthful aspects of science tend to be sacrificed to the that useful, and teentsy guarantee is do to keep abreast that leisurely, taxonomic comfort by which the better eccentric of headspring is formed and nourished. precisely level if at that place be, in kick in fact, any(prenominal) such unfavorable position as is divinatory in the educational value of science, this is, I accept, non the stigma of science itself, entirely the sack of the tonicity in which science is taught. If its estimable possibilities were complete by those who teach it, I believe that its might of producing those habits of mind which constitute the highest psychical virtue would be at least(prenominal) as spacious as that of literature, and much speci in ally of classic and Latin literature. In verbal expression this I take a shit no esteem any(prenominal) to vilify a unsullied education. I hold in not myself enjoyed its benefits, and my acquaintance of classic and Latin authors is derived close altogether from translations. alone I am firmly persuaded that the Greeks in full deserve all the amazement that is bestowed upon them, and that it is a very(prenominal) striking and stern bolshie to be innocent(predicate) with their writings. It is not by assail them, except by draft perplexity to drop excellences in science, that I entreat to abide my argument. \n