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WE regret our inability, at the present moment, to climb to philosophical heights with Aristotle and to declare that man is a political animal, or to sink into the comfortless cynicism of Schopenhauer and to assert that human society is a collection of hedgehogs driven together for the sake of warmth. Somewhere between the two exaggerations lies truth—whatever that may be. In the meantime our function, as we conceive it, is to probe, analyse, compare, and classify phenomena in the purely agnostic spirit which is the life and hope of science. This may be regarded merely as a restatement of something already grown platitudinous, yet it may appropriately serve as a prologue to some observations upon. a programme of a forthcoming imperial event.
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Foundations of Empire. Nature 119, 841–842 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119841a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119841a0