Ralph Barton Perry Quote

There is the growth of applied science, the increased interest in the control and reconstruction of nature, accompanied by a decline in the practice of meditation or the vocation of the intellectual life.


[describing the historical causes of the modern tendency to make intellect the servant of alien interests] - The Integrity of the Intellect


There is the growth of applied science, the increased interest in the control and reconstruction of nature, accompanied by a decline in the practice...

There is the growth of applied science, the increased interest in the control and reconstruction of nature, accompanied by a decline in the practice...

There is the growth of applied science, the increased interest in the control and reconstruction of nature, accompanied by a decline in the practice...

There is the growth of applied science, the increased interest in the control and reconstruction of nature, accompanied by a decline in the practice...