Youth and Egolatry by Pio Baroja — Read

In a text book designed for the edification of research workers -- a specimen of peculiarly disagreeable tartuffery -- the histologist, Ramon y Cajal, who, as a thinker, has always been an absolute mediocrity, explains what the young scholar should be, in the same way that the Constitution of 1812 made it clear what the ideal Spanish citizen should be.

So we know now the proper character of the young scholar. He must be calm, optimistic, serene. and all this with ten or twelve coppers in his pocket!