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IN recent years increasing recognition has been given to the contacts of science with social problems and public affairs. Many scientific workers, particularly those of the younger generation, are no longer content to be regarded as hewers of wood and drawers of water whose special knowledge is considered to disqualify them for administrative posts. They know how science enters into every department of national life or international undertaking, and they claim to be entrusted with a reasonable share of responsible control of the forces created by them. At present these new powers seem to be out of hand in their effects upon production and also their applications to destruction. Such disappointing results are not, however, essential consequences of scientific progress, but are due to the much slower rate of advance of man's ethical and spiritual nature.
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Humanistic Science. Nature 136, 885–886 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136885a0
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