 Merton defines this 'ethos' with reference to Albert Bayet's 1931 work « "La Morale De La Science" », which "abandons description and analysis for homily" as "that affectively toned complex of values and norms which is held to be binding on the man of science".He attempted to clarify it, given that previously it had not been 'codified'; Merton uses Bayet's remark that 'this scientific ethos ["morale"] does not have its theoreticians, but it has its artisans.It does not express its ideals, but serves them