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THE October–January number of Science and Society is devoted to a discussion of the conditions of progress towards internationalism. Prof. E. Jackh, in an article on “The Changing International Relations”, stresses the necessity of development into supra-national relations. Supra-national science has made possible and indeed necessary the organization of an international society. The tempo of such development, in which science shows the way, is determined by the extent to which humanity values technical civilization, science and their world-changing effect as bursting asunder the frontiers between peoples. Prof. H. J. Fleure contributes an article on “Society and Liberty” in which he shows that society must be studied ecologically with a deep realization that no one has the whole truth ; we are all seekers, and the truth is far above us all. He urges that it is our duty, in the name of science, to plead for freedom of conscience not only as an essential for scientific thought, but also as the only way in which in the long run society can keep in touch with the ever-flowing changes in the world. “Anthropology and racialism”is the subject of an article by J. C. Trevor, who, directing attention to some of the inherent difficulties in the consideration of problems of race, points out the danger to world peace which the accentuation of racial disparities may offer if identified with nationalistic aspirations.
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Progress towards Internationalism. Nature 141, 196–197 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141196b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141196b0