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...Every scientist is bound to believe that his is the most important of all sciences. Unless he were an enthusiast, he would weary of the drudgery entailed in the collection of the quantities of facts which are necessary for the business of scientific inquiry. Political scientists have the least excuse for weariness, since theirs is the science of life itself in its most highly developed form, that of the citizen. But unfortunately theirs is the most imperfect of all the sciences. To some that leads to impatience with politics, since it is so baffling and too often also so insincere...
...pleasant green gardens, surrounded by the aroma of bear, sausage and aged cheese. Yet out of this easy environment have come great geniuses and famous systems of education. Before the war, musicians considered a German "degree" the better part of talent, philologists founded their learning on German teachings, no scientist was a scientist without his two or three years in Germany...
Henry Miller adequately gives a Pasteur who is a scientist to his finger tips and bristling with loving kindness...
Even now there are many who may be won over at once by the claim of a French scientist that he had discovered in the human body a "paroptic" sense, or one making sight possible through the pores of the skin. In proof of this the doctor had his subject blindfolded with heavy cloth for ordinary light lays, and with leadfoil for X-rays. The subject then "read", printed cards held a short distance from his nose...
...given such a scientific flavor and because it is claimed that the new sense will eliminate blindness. Since we are anxious to give credence, we can a least promise in a "suspension of disbelief" while awaiting the verdict of investigation. And it can be suggested that, even if the scientist should be excused as a quack, he may at least have the prospect of making a living in another way. For a certain boy, on whom a pig's eye was grafted recently, although unable to see clearly has entered a career on the vaudeville stage, and, with...