Capitolo 51
to recognize the good qualities of his/her own run of one as the bad one
one. And the English, gone away to its his/her own native methods and he,
you cut indeed a very respectable figure in the dominion of science.
Any other nation has produced a Newton or a Darwin. The way of the English
it was to get up an interest in a subject before; and then, working again
from his part that it especially appealed to his/her his/her own tastes, to do
him master of the whole field of investigation. This disposition and
entirely method English and individualistic it trained him to arrive to new
it pedantically results in an impossible way to the educated German--no,
also to the shinily and cultured French systematically. It was the
projects to develop "amatory mere", I admit; but it was also the plan to
you develop discoverers and revolutionisers of science. For the man more
probably to advance knowledge is not the man that knows in an encyclopaedic
way of rote-job the whole circle of the sciences but the man that
taken a fresh interest for his own cause in of the particular branch of
investigation.
Darwin was a "mere amateur." He worked to things for the love of them.
Then it was Murchison, Lyell, Benjamin Franklin, Herschel. Then it was or it is
Bates, Herbert Spencer, Alfred Russel Wallace. "Amatory mere!" each
man of them.
In a bad time, however, our shepherds and masters in assembled conclave
tells each other, now "Come I/you/he/she make us Teutonise English scientific
education." It is straightway their Teutonised it. And there it started to rise
in England a new brood of brevet car-did scientists--excellent men
in their way, authority on the Arachnida, knowing all everything
that could be taught to the schools, but somehow the supreme one missing
the grace of the old originality English. They is experts of first category me,
allows; and I don't deny that a civilized country has every need of
experts. No, I equalize it admits that the day of the expert only has
only started. He will go far still; he will impose his/her joke and he on