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IT is not too much to say that for the first time in the history of the British Empire Science is coming into her own. It is no doubt humiliating to have to confess that it was the misapplied science of our enemies which demonstrated to us how inferior was the place we had given science in our own national life. The land that produced Roger. Bacon, Napier, Gilbert, Harvey, Newton, James Watt, Jenner, Faraday, I5arwin, Kelvin, and Lister had to be shown by the exponents of science prostituted that science was nevertheless worth cultivating for its own sake.
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The Man of Science in the Community of To-Day 1 . Nature 99, 236–238 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099236b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099236b0