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The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century |
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| Author
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Science
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English
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1889
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In fact, the history of physical science teaches (and we cannot too carefully
take the lesson to heart) that the practical advantages, attainable through its
agency, never have been, and never will be, sufficiently attractive to men inspired
by the inborn genius of the interpreter of nature, to give them courage to undergo
the toils and make the sacrifices which that calling requires from its votaries.
That which stirs their pulses is the love of knowledge and the joy of the discovery
of the causes of things sung by the old poets--the supreme delight of extending
the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the
infinitely great and the infinitely small, between which our little race of life
is run. In the course of this work, the physical philosopher, sometimes intentionally,
much more often unintentionally, lights upon something which proves to be of practical
value. Great is the rejoicing of those who are benefited thereby; and, for the
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