Herbert George Wells

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Herbert George Wells

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strangeworld of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who arecalled, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called-"Scientists." They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which wasfrom the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if itwere-that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But theGreat Public and its Press know better, and "Scientists" they are, and when they emerge toany sort of publicity, "distinguished scientists" and "eminent scientists" and "well-knownscientists" is the very least we call them.