Scientific Lectures And Essays
Scientific Lectures And Essays
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It needed moral courage, then, to face andinterpret fact. Such brave men as Pope Gerbert, Roger Bacon, Galileo, even Kepler, did not lead happy lives; some of them foundthemselves in prison. All the medieval sages--even Albertus Magnus--were stigmatised as magicians. One wonders that more of them didnot imitate poor Paracelsus, who, unable to get a hearing for hiscoarse common sense, took--vain and sensual--to drinking thelaudanum which he himself had discovered, and vaunted as a pricelessboon ...to men; and died as the fool dieth, in spite of all his wisdom. For the "Romani nominis umbra, " the shadow of the mighty race whomthey had conquered, lay heavy on our forefathers for centuries. Andtheir dread of the great heathens was really a dread of Nature, andof the powers thereof. For when the authority of great names hasreigned unquestioned for many centuries, those names become, to thehuman mind, integral and necessary parts of Nature itself. Theyare, as it were, absorbed into it; they become its laws, its canons, its demiurges, and guardian spirits; their words become regarded asactual facts; in one word, they become a superstition, and arefeared as parts of the vast unknown; and to deny what they have saidis, in the minds of the many, not merely to fly in the face ofreverent wisdom, but to fly in the face of facts.
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It needed moral courage, then, to face andinterpret fact. Such brave men as Pope Gerbert, Roger Bacon, Galileo, even Kepler, did not lead happy lives; some of them foundthemselves in prison. All the medieval sages--even Albertus Magnus--were stigmatised as magicians. One wonders that more of them didnot imitate poor Paracelsus, who, unable to get a hearing for hiscoarse common sense, took--vain and sensual--to drinking thelaudanum which he himself had discovered, and vaunted as a pricelessboon ...to men; and died as the fool dieth, in spite of all his wisdom. For the "Romani nominis umbra, " the shadow of the mighty race whomthey had conquered, lay heavy on our forefathers for centuries. Andtheir dread of the great heathens was really a dread of Nature, andof the powers thereof. For when the authority of great names hasreigned unquestioned for many centuries, those names become, to thehuman mind, integral and necessary parts of Nature itself. Theyare, as it were, absorbed into it; they become its laws, its canons, its demiurges, and guardian spirits; their words become regarded asactual facts; in one word, they become a superstition, and arefeared as parts of the vast unknown; and to deny what they have saidis, in the minds of the many, not merely to fly in the face ofreverent wisdom, but to fly in the face of facts.
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