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IT is believed by many scientific men that research is all but dead in England. Whether we confess it or not, England, so far as the advancement of knowledge goes, is but a third or fourth-rate power. It is not our present purpose to inquire into the causes of all this; whether, as some say, it is because our professors are so rich, or whether, as others affirm, because all arrangements for the increase of knowledge are so poor, but rather to call attention to the certain influence of this on the wealth—let us put it in the most sordid manner—of the nation in the future.
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Our National Industries . Nature 6, 97–99 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006097b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/006097b0