“The Man of Science as Aristocrat”

Abstract

IF I may say a word more about “The Man of Science as Aristocrat”, I would like to point out to my friend Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon that my suggestion, as Sir Richard Paget realizes, was of an inner aristocracy of the spirit in an entirely democratic world. I did not suggest that men of thought and knowledge should rule or control anybody or anything outside the range of their distinctive gifts. I suggested that within that range they should refuse absolutely to be directed, controlled or silenced by anybody, that they should bear themselves like brains with a backbone, and not like flexible slaves.