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I AM grieved to infer, from his letter in NATURE of October 13, that Prof. Haldane thinks that I have no soul. The skittle that he knocks down with such gusto is not mine. If he had read my address with more care, he might have discovered that the remarks which he quotes have no bearing on the question how far a knowledge of biology is useful to the average citizen: they refer solely to the danger of encouraging too many students to study intensively a highly specialised branch of knowledge. Let me ask him two questions: (1) Does he really think that a highly specialised training in any branch of knowledge is an essential ingredient of good citizenship? (2) Which is more likely to make a man a good citizen? To find that the world wants him, or to find that it does not?
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TIZARD, H. Science at the Universities. Nature 134, 629 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134629b0
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