Excerpt from The Right to Believe
In these days of many books, the appearance of a new volume seems to demand from its author a justification of his right to foist more print on an already over-burdened public. This explanation is the more necessary, if his book treats of subjects in a field which is not his own; for specialized knowledge has come to be the one requisite of all serious authorship; and in order to put some brakes on too ready pens, we demand that every man shall stick to his trade. Yet with all this, there exists a certain reverence for facts, whether their exploiter has run across them by chance or by intention. An astronomer has the right to make by-observations on the flights of birds, even though his telescope be pointed t the moon; nothing need prevent a man from observing plant heredity even tough his profession be that of a cloistered monk; and if a teacher of psychology has happened upon some religious facts may he not express them, granted that they are facts?
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