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ONE welcomes especially any fresh utterance of Dr. Sarton on general lines, because he devotes himself too exclusively to the learned studies of which he is a master and speaks too seldom on the wider aspects and applications of those studies, on which he has so much to tell us. He is at the same time the most eloquent and convincing prophet of the value of the history of science as a discipline and the man best qualified on the history itself. It is a unique position and one envies the United States for possessing him.
The History of Science and the New Humanism
By George Sarton. (Colver Lectures in Brown University, Elihu Root Lecture at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.) Pp. xx + 196. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1937.) 8s. 6d. net.
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MARVIN, F. The History of Science and the New Humanism. Nature 141, 577 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141577a0
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