Note 142 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)
Richard Aldington translation
They add ‘and unscientific’, which is irrefutable as soon as science means ‘practical’. ‘Bringing up children religiously,’ says M. Paul Bourget, ‘is bringing them up scientifically’—a very defensible saying as soon as ‘scientifically’ means (as the author here wants it to mean) ‘in conformity with the national interest’.