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THE dogs of war are again let loose, and in the two most highly civilised countries of Europe, where, a week ago, science, education, and commerce were in full sway, all the arts of peace are already neglected, and in prospect have gone back a quarter of a century. We can hardly yet realise that at the present moment railways are being torn up, lighthouses dismantled, lightships towed into harbour, and monuments of engineering skill, such as the bridge over the Rhine at Kiel, undermined, so that they may be destroyed at a moment's notice. But these, after all, are calamities of the second order; education is stopped; science schools are broken up; while we write both professor and pupil are forsaking the laboratory and the class-room, and the whole machinery of progress has come to a stand-still.
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War. Nature 2, 229 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002229a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/002229a0