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Revival: The Frustration of Science (1935) (Hardcover)
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Revival: The Frustration of Science (1935) (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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From the beginning to the end of these pages, whether we read of
the wilful destruction of the products and productivity of the
soil, the aerial destruction of wealth by the thousand million
pounds' worth, created by somebody's labour, the embarrassing
fecundity of modern technology resulting only in every conceivable
form of sabotage, the anomalous position of the conscientious
medical practitioner. The refusal of women to bring children into
such a world, the development of the art of spreading bacterial
infection as a new war technique, or the frank abandonment by
modern political movements of the hope of social progress that
science renders possible - from the beginning to the end of these
pages the reader will find elegant examples of the sort of ruling
mentality now dominating the world. Bitter, and justifiably so, as
many of the critics of science are, surely nothing bitterer could
be said of it than this, that its abundance has but enthroned the
wastrel. Not is the solution exactly what one of the contributors
rather naively suggests, that science should look for a new master.
The solution is for the public to acknowledge its real master, and,
for its own safety, insist on being ruled not by the reflection of
a reflection, but direct by those who are concerned with the
creation of its weather rather than of its debts. It should require
that its universities and learned societies should no longer evade
their responsibilities and hide under the guise of false humility
as the hired servants of the world their work has made possible,
but do that for which they are supposed in cultured release from
routine occupations, and speak the truth though the heavens fall.
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