One of them near me said, with a knowing air, "What won't science do next ?" I was indignant, and I had all I could do to keep from saying: "They are fooling you.

What they are showing you is not Science, at the most only its antechamber.

As for you who are deceiving these naive good people, you are only impostors." But I kept still; I would only have succeeded in getting thrown out.

But I said to myself--and I still say--"Why not enlighten these people, who obviously want light ?" It is impossible to _teach_ them science, but it should be possible to make them at least comprehend what science _is_, for they have no idea of it now.

They do not know--in this era when they are constantly talking about their rights and urged to demand more wages and less work--that there are young people who are spending their best years and leading a precarious existence, working day and night, without hope of personal profit, with no other end in view besides the hope of discovering new facts from which humanity may benefit at some time in the future.