Autobiography And Selected Essays
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Surely, the principles involved in them are nowadmitted among the fixed beliefs of all thinking men? Surely, it is truethat our countrymen are less subject to fire, famine, pestilence, and all the evils which result from a want of command over and dueanticipation of the course of Nature, than were the countrymen ofMilton; and health, wealth, and well-being are more abundant with usthan with them? But no less certainly is the difference due to theimprovement of our knowledge of Nature, and the e...xtent to which thatimproved knowledge has been incorporated with the household words ofmen, and has supplied the springs of their daily actions.
Granting for a moment, then, the truth of that which the depreciators ofnatural knowledge are so fond of urging, that its improvement can onlyadd to the resources of our material civilisation; admitting it to bepossible that the founders of the Royal Society themselves lookedfor not other reward than this, I cannot confess that I was guiltyof exaggeration when I hinted, that to him who had the gift ofdistinguishing between prominent events and important events, the originof a combined effort on the part of mankind to improve natural knowledgemight have loomed larger than the Plague and have outshone the glareof the Fire; as a something fraught with a wealth of beneficence tomankind, in comparison with which the damage done by those ghastly evilswould shrink into insignificance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Surely, the principles involved in them are nowadmitted among the fixed beliefs of all thinking men? Surely, it is truethat our countrymen are less subject to fire, famine, pestilence, and all the evils which result from a want of command over and dueanticipation of the course of Nature, than were the countrymen ofMilton; and health, wealth, and well-being are more abundant with usthan with them? But no less certainly is the difference due to theimprovement of our knowledge of Nature, and the e...xtent to which thatimproved knowledge has been incorporated with the household words ofmen, and has supplied the springs of their daily actions.
Granting for a moment, then, the truth of that which the depreciators ofnatural knowledge are so fond of urging, that its improvement can onlyadd to the resources of our material civilisation; admitting it to bepossible that the founders of the Royal Society themselves lookedfor not other reward than this, I cannot confess that I was guiltyof exaggeration when I hinted, that to him who had the gift ofdistinguishing between prominent events and important events, the originof a combined effort on the part of mankind to improve natural knowledgemight have loomed larger than the Plague and have outshone the glareof the Fire; as a something fraught with a wealth of beneficence tomankind, in comparison with which the damage done by those ghastly evilswould shrink into insignificance.
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