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would require. At any rate, I will make no such
attempt, except probably in one department, and there only partially
and timidly.

Let us look upon science, -- the science of today, --
as a living thing. What characterizes it generally,
from this point of view, is that the thoroughly established truths
are labelled and put away upon the shelves of each
scientist's mind, where they can be used at hand when there
is occasion to use them, -- arranged, therefore, to suit
his special convenience, -- while science itself, -- the
living process, -- is busied under mainly with conjectures,
which are either getting framed or getting
tested. If When that systematized knowledge on the shelves
is used, it is used just almost exactly as a manufacturer or practising
physician might use it; that is to say, it is merely applied. If
it ever becomes the object of science, it is because the in the