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MEANING
Introd
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introduction to the Encyclopedia Metropolitana defined
science as systematized knowledge. But this place the
emphasis upon a character of secondary importance and he ignores
the heart and vitalizing spirit of science. it makes science consist
in the text-book, which every man of science more nearly regards as more as the
mortuary urn that preserves the ashes of what formerly lived as science.
What are the leading characters which animates the true scientific
man in whose head and heart genuine science lives? The first is
the effective passion to find out the very truth of some subject.
The second is that this truth does not animate the scientists because of its is not of mere personal interest
in itself as truth. This In saying this I do not in the least exclude
practical science, such as a science of the steam-engine, and the