The History of Science and the New Humanism

Abstract

Human genius knows other forms of creation than the purely scientific one, but it knows no other, adequate to its steady improvement and perpetuation. The New Humanism is a double renaissance: a scientific renaissance for men of letters, and a literary one for men of science. The disciplined intellect of the man of science did not simply conquer the material world; it gave a revelation of the immaterial one far transcending that which had been given before by poets and dreamers. This chapter suggests the essential difference between the history of science as a whole on the one hand and the histories of particular branches of science on the other. Science is neither philosophy, nor religion, nor art; it is the totality of positive knowledge, as closely knit as possible; it is as different from its practical applications on the one hand, as it is from idle theorizing and blind faith on the other.

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