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THE occasion for another article on a familiar subject is the Prime Minister's inaugural address to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, on the contributions of science and statesmanship to the problems of civilisation. Mr. Stanley Baldwin makes no claim to the title of ‘man of science.’ One hopes that he possesses what in political circles are known as the ‘best brains.’ If he does, he would be the last to proclaim the fact. But he does possess in a high degree that Greek quality which Matthew Arnold translated as “sweetness and light,” and that Roman virtue extolled by the dying Antoninus Pius, aequanimitas. Apart from his official position, anything he says on the relations of science to the public will be heard with respect.
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H., T. Science and the Public. Nature 122, 833–834 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122833a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122833a0