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CAPT. B. J. MARDEN'S letter in NATURE of July 14 (p. 623) raises a question which must be exercising the minds of many of the readers of NATURE to-day. That question is: How can scientific workers collectively obtain such control of the product of their work—new knowledge—as to secure that it shall be used for the development of a better order of society out of the existing chaos? Science—knowledge—alone can create this new order and save Europe from relapsing into barbarism. If this be accepted as a true statement of fact, we are led naturally to inquire: What are the best methods to pursue to secure that science shall be so applied?
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SMITH, J., CHURCH, A. Science and Civilisation. Nature 107, 684 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107684a0
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