The things that interest mankind: A commentary on thirty years of comparative education¹

‘… for things are interesting only in so far as they relate themselves to other things; only then can you put two and two together, and see them make four or even five, and hear them tell stories about each other. Such is science itself and such is all the knowledge that interests mankind.’ D'Arcy W. Thompson: Science and the Classics (O.U.P., London, 1940), p. 149.

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‘… for things are interesting only in so far as they relate themselves to other things; only then can you put two and two together, and see them make four or even five, and hear them tell stories about each other. Such is science itself and such is all the knowledge that interests mankind.’ D'Arcy W. Thompson: Science and the Classics (O.U.P., London, 1940), p. 149.