Mankind in the MakingWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Philosophy
Mankind in the Making
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Social sciences
There may be every gradation from such students to those who
will go completely and exhaustively through the College and who will
then go on at one and twenty or two and twenty to equally complete and
exhaustive work in the third grade. One imagines the third grade in its
completeness as a most varied choice of thorough studies carried on for
three or four years after eighteen or twenty-one, special schools
of medicine, law, engineering, psychology, and educational science,
economics and political science, economics and commercial science,
philosophy and theology, and physical science. Quite apart from the
obvious personal limitation, the discussion of the method of dealing
specifically with each of these subjects would be too diversified and
special a theme to occupy me now. The larger fact to which attention has
to be given is this: that all these studies and all the technical study
and such like preparation at lower levels of the third stage must be
as it were floating in a common body of Thought, which is the unifying
principle, the common initiative, the real common life of the truly
civilized state, and that this body of Thought is no longer to be
contained within the form of a University. It is the larger of the two
things. And the last question, therefore, in these speculations is
the general organization of that body of Thought, that is to say of
contemporary literature, using the word in its widest sense to cover all
that is good in journalism, all untechnical speculative, philosophical
writing, all that is true and new in the drama, in poetry, fiction or
any other distinctly literary form, and all scientific publication
that is not purely a matter of recording or technical working out, all
scientific publication that is, that deals with general ideas.
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