Books with title A Century of Science

In such matters, thebest of machinery is of less consequence than the human nature by whichthe machinery is to be worked. Impartiality, not only real, butconspicuous and unmistakable, is the prime requisite in a court ofarbitration. Its life and health can be sustained only in an atmosphereof untainted and unsuspected integrity. But in an age which does not yetfully comprehend the damnable villainy of such maxims as "Our country,right or wrong," gross partisanship is not easy to eliminate from humannature. Even austere judges, taken from a Supreme Court, have sometimesshown themselves to be men of like passions with ourselves.