"Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate."
A SINGULAR phenomenon is just now observable. The market for Science is going up, but the appreciation of the individual Scientist is going down. Truth is working its way into the general consciousness, but the true and the pseudo Scientists are lumped together, and a general average on the lot is struck by the uninformed, but disinterested and honest public.
The sufferer under the operation of this law of general average is the earnest Scientist, who bears the reproach of the ill-conduct or inefficiency of false or incompetent teachers, and their following. Scientists suffer directly from the loss of estimation, but the worst is that the condition of the general consciousness is reflected on theirs, so that Truth cannot shine through them with its earlier power, and growth is arrested. The confusion in the public mind induces confusion in theirs also, and a disposition to accept this depreciated valuation as the normal standard.
