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THERE can be no doubt that at the present day the question of the popularisation of science has acquired new interest and importance; it has been for some time an increasingly recurrent theme in our columns. The times seem in many ways to offer a new opportunity; great things-very great things-have been occurring in science, and in view of them we realise more than ever the grievousness of our intellectual condition, a condition where not only the multitude lie in ignorance but also where those who pass as the best informed have been left by their higher education without eyes to see, or ears to hear, the greatest happenings in the progress of human knowledge.
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Popularisation and Sensationalism. Nature 114, 597–598 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114597a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114597a0