They do not know that all the benefits of civilization which they carelessly enjoy are the result of the long, painful and enormous work of the thinkers whom they regard as idlers and visionaries who grow rich from the sweat of the toilers.

In a word, they should be taught to give respect to what is worthy of it.
It is true that there are scientific congresses, but these are serious gatherings which attract only the select few.

It should be possible to interest everybody, and in order to make scientific meetings interesting we should use motion pictures and concerts.
But here we trench on art.

We ought to teach the people not only science but art as well, but the latter is the more difficult.
* * * * * Modern peoples are not artistic.

The Greeks were, and the Japanese were, before the European invasion.