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FOR some little time past the intellectual air of Paris has been enlivened by a controversy between men like M. Berthelot, M. Lavisse, M. Anatole France, and M. Gaston Paris, as supporters of the gospel that the disinterested search for truth is a guide to morality, and a reactionary party which has, with surprising dialectics, attempted to sustain a plea of the “failure of science.” From the Times of Friday last, we learn that on Thursday the reception at the Academy of M. Gaston Paris, the successor of M. Renan as the head of the Collége de France, and one of those who have done most in philological studies to maintain the renown of French science, was the occasion of a signal demonstration against the reactionary, unscientific spirit.
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Science and Morals. Nature 55, 322 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055322a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/055322a0