The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider for example two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service but a boundless almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown to uncover the secret to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes.
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider for example two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service but a boundless almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown to uncover the secret to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes.