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THERE has been an increasing tendency of late for presidential addresses to deal with topics that lie outside the scope of the scientific or technical society concerned. We have had physicists dilating upon metaphysics, chemists on agriculture, biologists on politics, and nearly all on education or economics. This practice is not to be summarily condemned, because it indicates that at least some scientific men are abandoning their old attitude of 'splendid isolation’ from human affairs, though at times one is reminded of Bernard Shaw's dictum that no one ever learned to do one thing by doing something else. Mr. F. Heron Rogers, in his address to the nineteenth annual meeting of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, held on April 4 in London, proved no exception to this tendency. In his view, war is inevitable, and the ‘fittest’ who survive in life's struggles are those who are “strong in arms and in honour”.
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Post-War Problems for Chemical Industries. Nature 147, 538 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147538b0
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