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THE leading article under the above title in NATURE of Sept. 3 is a timely reminder of the outstanding problem of the present age. When science begins to question what is being done with its lavish gifts to humanity, it is a healthy sign, and gives grounds for hope that something may be done towards solving the greatest anomaly of our time—that of scarcity in the midst of abundance, and its attendant evil, unemployment. It is, too, a sign of awakening to the realities of the situation that there were echoes of this question at the recent meeting of the British Association—notably in the president's address and in the suggestive address by Prof. Miles Walker on “The Call to the Engineer and Scientist”. Moreover, there are not lacking other signs hi various directions that this question is becoming a live issue, and one that must be grappled with, and that quickly.
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LISHMAN, W. The Contribution of Science to tbe Future. Nature 130, 582 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130582a0
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