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UNDER the title “Science and Industrial Sanity”? in the Hibbert Journal for July 1932, Mr. H. P. Vowles and his late wife, Margaret Vowles, discuss some of the effects of the application of science to industry during the last century and half, particularly the enormous increase in productivity and the unaccompanying unemployment. They reject at the outset the pleas for a return to the pre-scientific age or for the suspension of scientific research and its application to industry for several decades, and point out that the spectacular increase in productive capacity has been accompanied by a considerable change in the ethical standards of industry. Wherever science has influenced industrial activity, the spirit of service has come into competition with the desire for private gain. The serious problems with which mankind is now confronted are mainly attributed to the existence of whole tracts of industry, notably those concerned with the monetary aspects of distribution, which are uninfluenced by science, and where alike the scientific method and the spirit of service have yet to penetrate.
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Altruism in Science and Industry. Nature 130, 212 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130212a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130212a0