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 decorations. Either the servant of material Action, or a useless virtuosity: such is the condition finally reserved to Thought.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.