Chemistry / [Raphael Meldola].

  • Raphael Meldola
Date:
[1914?]
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Credit: Chemistry / [Raphael Meldola]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    realize—upon its general appreciation of Science, that appreciation must be of the highest and broadest character—it is Science in the abstract, and not purely utilitarian concrete knowledge, which must be raised to the level of one of the most exalted branches of human culture. The modern awakening of the spirit of scientific inquiry has resulted in an activity which is in itself responsible in some measure for the slow progress towards the attainment of that high standard of popular scientific culture which we desire to see established. The active workers are a numerous and ever growing body, and the boundaries of knowledge are being extended with such rapidity in every direction that the educated layman who can follow with intelligence the various develop- ments of Literature or of Art finds himself unable to cope with the progress of Science. Nor is this surprising when we find that even the workers themselves, having necessarily to specialize in order to achieve results of value, are unable to keep pace with the progress of discovery in domains outside their own field of research. Moreover, the constant discovery of new facts and principles, and the concurrent revision or extension of scientific doctrine is apt to discourage the would-be