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1908 Nov 30
Logic
I.i. 13

scientific life that it meant poverty and hardship; but they
felt that somebody ought to do the work, and that they were
able to do it better than others. Naturally, they are drawn to one another,
each one particulary to those who are studying problems which he himself knows
pretty well how to attack, but also to every man of science, because he
knows that such a man has the same code of honor as himself, which
other men do not comprehend. Therefore in any foreign city he sends
in his card to a scientific man with no sort of introduction, and knows
that he will be received as a brother. He is not a poet
but an intellectual man, a reasoner and above all an observer. He
may not entirely understand himself, but he has a sort of deep, une-
motional worship for whatever it may be that has made the universe;
but he looks facts straight in the face, and he does not believe in

1908 Nov 30
Logic
I.i. 13

scientific life that it meant poverty and hardship; but they
felt that somebody ought to do the work, and that they were
able to do it better than others. Naturally, they are drawn to one another,
each one particulary to those who are studying problems which he himself knows
pretty well how to attack, but also to every man of science, because he
knows that such a man has the same code of honor as himself, which
other men do not comprehend. Therefore in any foreign city he sends
in his card to a scientific man with no sort of introduction, and knows
that he will be received as a brother. He is not a poet
but an intellectual man, a reasoner and above all an observer. He
may not entirely understand himself, but he has a sort of deep, une-
motional worship for whatever it may be that has made the universe;
but he looks facts straight in the face, and he does not believe in