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Nature 421, 33 (2 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421033a
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... the pamphlet entitled "Survey of the Sciences," which forms an appendix to a paper on University Development, is of especial importance at the present time, for we are glad to know that the belief that the weakness of our universities must lead to national weakness in several directions is growing with a rapidly accelerating pace. It may be long in this slow-moving country before the influence of Brain-power on history is recognised as fully as the influence of Sea-power has been, thanks to Captain Mahan, but undoubtedly it will be bad for our future if much more time is lost ... We are glad to see that the Times, in a sympathetic article, goes to the root of the matter in stating that "if the pocket of the millionaire is closed, the pocket of the nation must be opened.
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