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1908 Nov 30
Logic
I.i. 11

affair of today. I wish you to know that when I use this
word, I am not thinking of a self-important professor, sitting
in his arm chair

With purpose to be drest in an opinion
Of wisedome, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say, I am sir an Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dogge barke.

For that is bears no resemblance to the man of science. But
I am thinking of groups of men who have been drawn toge-
ther because each knows of every other that he is one of the very
few who, like himself, is deeply interested in getting to the
bottom of a certain line of problems. They do not expect, themselves,
to learn the solutions of the majority of those problems, but they

1908 Nov 30
Logic
I.i. 11

affair of today. I wish you to know that when I use this
word, I am not thinking of a self-important professor, sitting
in his arm chair

With purpose to be drest in an opinion
Of wisedome, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say, I am sir an Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dogge barke.

For that is bears no resemblance to the man of science. But
I am thinking of groups of men who have been drawn toge-
ther because each knows of every other that he is one of the very
few who, like himself, is deeply interested in getting to the
bottom of a certain line of problems. They do not expect, themselves,
to learn the solutions of the majority of those problems, but they