not like it) to the nice sensible people who know what's what rather
than to the discovering class.

And this is easily understood when we remember that the pioneer
cannot hope to acquire any of the new sciences in a single lifetime
so perfectly as to become unaware of his own knowledge. As a general
rule, we observe him to be still in a state of active consciousness
concerning whatever particular science he is extending, and as long
as he is in this state he cannot know utterly. It is, as I have
already so often insisted on, those who do not know that they know so
much who have the firmest grip of their knowledge: the best class,
for example, of our English youth, who live much in the open air,
and, as Lord Beaconsfield finely said, never read. These are the
people who know best those things which are best worth knowing--that
is to say, they are the most truly scientific. Unfortunately, the
apparatus necessary for this kind of science is so costly as to be
within the reach of few, involving, as it does, an experience in the
use of it for some preceding generations. Even those who are born
with the means within their reach must take no less pains, and
exercise no less self-control, before they can attain the perfect
unconscious use of them, than would go to the making of a James Watt
or a Stephenson; it is vain, therefore, to hope that this best kind
of science can ever be put within the reach of the many; nevertheless
it may be safely said that all the other and more generally
recognised kinds of science are valueless except in so far as they
tend to minister to this the highest kind. They have no raison
d'etre except so far as they tend to do away with the necessity for
work, and to diffuse good health, and that good sense which is above
self-consciousness. They are to be encouraged because they have
rendered the most fortunate kind of modern European possible, and