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When we say "science" we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), British author, painter. "Revolution and Progress," ch. 1, The Art of Being Ruled (1926).

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