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THE unprecedented progress of science and its applications during the last hundred years has given rise to a flood of literature, the magnitude of which has dulled our senses into a sort of acquiescence. About two thousand new volumes on scientific subjects are issued annually by British publishers, while the number of scientific papers published in a year throughout the world has been estimated to amount to three quarters of a million. A century ago, a scientific worker was
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The Organization of Knowledge. Nature 142, 99–100 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142099a0
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