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DURING the past few weeks the minds of many electors in Great Britain must have been disturbed by the storms of rhetoric, appeals to occupational interests, and promises of a Golden Age in the near future, which are common characteristics of a general election. We have seen dozens of election addresses, and almost all of them profess the desire to promote industrial development, and thus reduce the burden of unemployment. The solution of this problem is not, however, so simple as it seems on paper, and is not, moreover, solely a matter of adjusting the conflicting claims of capital and labour. The third pillar of the tripod upon which the structure of modern civilisation has been erected is creative science, yet scarcely a candidate referred to it as an essential factor of national stability as well as of progress.
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Science and the Empire. Nature 110, 797–798 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110797a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110797a0