The Food of the Gods

7 hrs. 44 min.

Language Russian

Author Herbert Wells

Narrator Svetlana Shakleina

Description

By the middle of the nineteenth century, in our very strange world, a class of people (mostly older men) begins, for the first time, to grow in number—people who are quite properly called “scientists,” yet who cannot stand that name. They dislike it so much that in the journal “Nature,” from the very beginning made their privileged organ, the word “scientist” is never used, as though it simply did not exist in the language. But the public and the press nevertheless call them “scientists” when the subject comes up. “Most esteemed scientist,” “our well-known scientist,” “illustrious scientist”—that is how we usually address them…

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