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THE autobiography of Lord Haldane recently published throws a flood of light on several questions of scientific and educational interest. Mr Sidney Webb once expressed the view that men of science who had entered the field of politics had not as a rule distinguished themselves in Parliament, a judgment which, with commendable impartiality, he extended to historians and economists. This view was challenged at the time. Playfair and Lubbock, it was suggested, had rendered valuable services as members of Parliament, and Huxley as a member of the first London School Board. Ought we not to regard these instances as exceptions proving the rule? To the man of science, groping with his taper along the rugged pathway towards truth, the eclectic arts, the rhetorical triumphs-and at times the overweening confidence-of the politicians make no strong appeal.
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H., T. Lord Haldane in Science and Education. Nature 123, 593–595 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123593a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123593a0