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THE Manufacturing Chemist of November includes a further symposium of notes from contemporary scientific workers on “Science and Mankind”. Contributions in the October number from Mr. H. G. Wells, Sir Richard Gregory, Prof. L. Hogben, Prof. H. Levy and Sir Daniel Hall are followed by others from Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, who stresses the importance of adequate organization to supply the Press with scientific news, and of thinking rationally about economics and politics, and Mr. C. S. Garland, who directs attention to the vital need for an organization which can speak for science as a whole and of the importance of having representatives in Parliament who are really concerned with the welfare of the profession as a whole. Sir Ernest Graham-Little outlines the contribution which medical science can make to improve social conditions. Dr. W. Cullen, while pointing out that the ultimate effects of a scientific or technical discovery are largely unpredictable, stresses the impossibility of stopping scientific and technical progress and, while condemning the prostitution of science as in warfare, directs attention to the way in which social conditions have been improved by scientific and technical advances. Prof. Alfred Stock expresses the hope that the progress of chemistry and physics has rendered war so terrible that the use of brute force will be renounced by the nations in reality, and that then science will be able to devote itself completely to the welfare, health and enjoyment of existence of mankind.
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Science and Mankind. Nature 141, 19 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141019b0
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