. Does that ring strange? There are enough brave and decent working people, even among the learned men of today, who like their little corner, and who, just because they are pleased so to do, become at times indecently loud with their demand, that people today should be quite content, especially in science⁠—for in science there is so much useful work to do. I do not deny it⁠—there is nothing I should like less than to spoil the delight of these honest workers in their handiwork; for I rejoice in their work. But the fact of science requiring hard work, the fact of its having contented workers, is absolutely no proof of science as a whole having today one end, one will, one ideal, one passion for a great faith; the contrary, as I have said, is the case. When science is not the latest manifestation of the ascetic ideal⁠—but these are cases of such rarity, selectness, and exquisiteness, as to preclude the general judgment being affected thereby⁠—science is a hiding-place for every kind of cowardice, disbelief, remorse, despectio sui , bad conscience⁠—it is the very anxiety