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Excerpt from The McGill University Magazine, Vol. 1: Dec., 1901
Our statements are not intended to refer to history or literature merely they are equally applicable to science. Personally, we con fess to knowing but little of the work that is being done by the scientific societies of the university; however, an echo of it reaches our ears now and then from our colleagues. We have not the faintest sympathy with scorn of science any more than with scorn of litera ture. The methods of scientific research and of true literary criticism coincide at more points than one; indeed, we quite agree with the modern critic who says that the proposition which seems to stand most in need of assertion at the present moment, is that there is an inductive science of literary criticism. To turn elsewhere, the brilliant discoveries of which Philology can boast have been made by the appli cation of strict scientific method, and by minds in no wise inferior to those regarded with honour by men of science. This is not the place to dwell on these questions, and we may leave them in remarking that some whose pursuits are not now scientific, are thankful for having read in youth John Stuart Mill''s statement that no man who did not know one science well could be said to be properly educated. To those whose chief concern is literature, the summary of a paper on some purely scientific matter of general interest ought, if couched in suficiently popular terms, to prove acceptable. Again, the proceed ings of the Medical Society, if they happen to touch on matters that bear on the life of the ordinary citizen as a member of a civic com munity, might very well find a place in our pages. Brie?y, we are convinced that there are many undergraduates who would prefer to have the more serious diversions of the undergraduate world recorded.
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Our statements are not intended to refer to history or literature merely they are equally applicable to science. Personally, we con fess to knowing but little of the work that is being done by the scientific societies of the university; however, an echo of it reaches our ears now and then from our colleagues. We have not the faintest sympathy with scorn of science any more than with scorn of litera ture. The methods of scientific research and of true literary criticism coincide at more points than one; indeed, we quite agree with the modern critic who says that the proposition which seems to stand most in need of assertion at the present moment, is that there is an inductive science of literary criticism. To turn elsewhere, the brilliant discoveries of which Philology can boast have been made by the appli cation of strict scientific method, and by minds in no wise inferior to those regarded with honour by men of science. This is not the place to dwell on these questions, and we may leave them in remarking that some whose pursuits are not now scientific, are thankful for having read in youth John Stuart Mill''s statement that no man who did not know one science well could be said to be properly educated. To those whose chief concern is literature, the summary of a paper on some purely scientific matter of general interest ought, if couched in suficiently popular terms, to prove acceptable. Again, the proceed ings of the Medical Society, if they happen to touch on matters that bear on the life of the ordinary citizen as a member of a civic com munity, might very well find a place in our pages. Brie?y, we are convinced that there are many undergraduates who would prefer to have the more serious diversions of the undergraduate world recorded.
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This 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.
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