Abstract
THE April, June and September 1943 issues of the Krisson Bulletin contain a series of articles well designed to encourage the development of a more scientific outlook generally. The first, "A Plea for Scepticism", should encourage a more critical attitude to some of the proposals for reconstruction and particularly to political theory. It includes a useful little bibliography. In the following issue are printed eleven paragraphs of "The Universal Rights of Man" from a pamphlet by Mr. H. G. Wells to be published later. This is a development from the "Declaration of the Rights of Man". This statement of the universal rights—the right to live, protection of minors, freedom to work, right to earn money, right to possess, freedom to go about, right to know, personal liberty, freedom from violences—which are in the nature of man and cannot be changed, but could be made the basis of a new and happier way of human life, is accompanied by an appeal not to take them for granted but to work for them and to guard them. The third article, "Educated ? It is my Business", after quoting F. Sherwood Taylor's "The Century of Science", pleads for an attempt to understand our environment and to take an intelligent place in human organization.
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Thoughts on Reconstruction. Nature 153, 220 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153220d0
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