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Unit 1 science vs. the humanities Are the humanities useless frill—a vestigial appendage of our antiquated educational system? Has the importance of technology been stressed over that of the humanities at a time when perhaps the converse should be true? Should we bother at all to teach the humanities in our schools? These are questions which have often beset educators and serious-minded thinkers. Let us investigate these questions in their broad context, for our heritage depends to an extent on the answers. 人文学科是否只是一种无用的装饰品，是我们陈旧时的教育体系中发育不全的附属体？在一个也许更需要更强调人文学科的重要性的是代理，是否相反过分强调了技术的重要性？我们究竟该不该在学校里不厌其烦地教授人文学科？这些是常常困扰教育家和理性思想家的问题。让我们在更宽的范围内研究这些问题，因为我们文化遗产的传承在一定程度上取决于对这些问题的问答。 2. The humanities are not a mere device; they are not agencies for general improvement. The humanities in the broad cultural sense，and in the narrow academic one，have uses that are much more intimate and permanent. In any generation, persons are born who find books, music, works of art, and theaters in the world and are instinctively drawn to them. These people grow up with an ingrained desire for the objects of their interest and a preference for people of like taste. a larger group, though less intent, takes similar pleasure in artistic activities from time to time. The two groups together are strong enough to impose on the remainder the daily presence of what delights them. 人文学科不是一种单纯的工具，也不会促成一般意义上的进步。无论从广泛的文化意义上还是从狭隘的学术意义上讲，人文学科的价值更富有个性和永久性。不管那一代，总有人在这世上碰上书籍、音乐、艺术品和剧院，并本能地被这些东西所吸引。这些人长达后，对他们所喜欢的东西形成了一种根深蒂固的嗜好，也偏爱和他们有着同样爱好的人。而更多的人，尽管不那么专注，但也时而表现出对艺术活动有相似的爱好。这两个群体的人已经足以让其他人感受到他们所欣赏的东西在日常生活中的存在。 3. thus the art of architecture and its decoration — the post-office mural or the restored Williamsburg—are forced on millions who, left to themselves, might live in a cave or a tent. Thus newspapers and magazines reproduce pictures, retell history, comment on art old and new, criticize music and books ,write about the lives and opinions of artists —in short, cater for the minority who sway us all by thei