请允许我感谢诸位极其友好、极有眼光地听取了为科学而作的祝酒辞。在今天这样的会上听到这个祝酒辞,更使我感激不已。因为近年来我注意到,在那些被戏称为生于前科学时代的人当中,出现了一种日益强大的、把科学视为一股侵略势力的倾向。他们以为,如果科学要想随心所欲的话,就会把其他行业逐出宇宙。我想,现在有许多人都认为当代的这个新生事物是一头从现代思潮的海洋中冒出来的怪兽,它想要吞噬艺术的安德洛墨达。于是,一位帕修斯就会不时出现。他脚登写作快手的追风靴,头戴重要评论的隐形盔,也许还长着装满谩骂之词的美杜萨脑袋,摆出了欲与科学之龙决胜负的架势。诸位,我希望这位帕修斯三思。首先要为自己着想。因为怪兽的头很坚硬,颚也很强壮,而且一段时间以来,它在冲破任何羁绊方面已大显身手。其次要为公正着想。因为我向诸位担保,依本人之愚见,这头怪兽如果不去惹它的话,本来是非常温文尔雅的。至于艺术的安德洛墨达,它对那位女士非常敬慕,而且别无他求,只盼她幸福地安家落户,年年生育一大群招人喜爱的儿女,就像我们在自己周围所看到的孩子们那样。
But putting parables aside ,I am unable to understand how any one with a knowledge of mankind can imagine that the growth of science can threaten the development of art in any of its forms.If I understand the matter at all,science and art are the obverse and reverse of Natures medal;the one expressing the rternal order of things,in terms of feeling,the other in terms of thought.When men no longer love nor hate;when suffering causes to thrill,when the lily of the field shall seem no longer more beautifully arrayed than Solomon in all his glory,and the awe has vanished from the snow-capped peak and deep ravine,then indeed science may have the world yo itself ,but it will not be because the monster has devoured art ,but because one side of human nature is dead ,and because men have lost the half of their ancient and present attributes.
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