The Helpful Science

Excerpt from The Helpful Science

Then blossomed that great recurrence, the Renascence, once more bringing Plato into fashion, with a love for physical science akin to that which had existed in the mind of Aristotle. Therewith there naturally arose a feeling of aversio'n from what had charmed men before, with a neglect of one depart ment of nature, just as another department had been previously neglected by mediaeval students.

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