Excerpt from The Relation Between Thought and Action: From the German and From the Classical Point of View, The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at Oxford, October 20, 1917Scholarship, pure science, the contemplation of ideal truth, even if they should outlive the huge modern movement of Germany towards material realization, can never be regarded there as anything but mere luxuries, a kind of intellectual sport, to be honoured with titles and...
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