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EVERY one who is interested in the bearing which the teaching of biology has to the affairs of the nation must have followed with interest not only this last work of Prof. Pearson, but also his many contributions to the subject of heredity. Very opportune, also, is Prof. Lankester's appeal in his review (March 21) to “the greatest in the land,” for apart from the fact “that the crowd cannot guide itself in its blind impotence,” it is being otherwise led by the hysterical nonsense of a halfpenny Press that is degrading journalism and the people by the substitution of bombastic ignorance and assertiveness for knowledge and real merit.
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MUDGE, G. Darwinism and Statecraft. Nature 63, 561–562 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063561b0
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