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IN view of the efforts that are now being made in many quarters to bring about better relations between science and the State, it is interesting to recall Sir David Brewster's dedication of his “Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton.” It is addressed to the Prince Consort, and dated from St. Andrews sixty-one years ago, and yet it is sufficiently suggestive of the circumstances of the present day to be reproduced in full.
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SHAW, N. Science and the State. Nature 97, 220–221 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097220b0
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