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ALL signs point to a full and interesting meeting of the British Association on September 9–16 in its new surroundings. The work of the Association, wide enough in all conscience, has been, of recent years, taking on a still wider character. The man of science is realizing to-day, as he never realized before, that he is, as man of science, a citizen of a great community; that he is a power in that community; and that he can forge weapons of a potency, for good and ill, such as the world has never yet known. The destinies of the future civilizations are in his hands, more than in those of any other class; and it is for him to see that the knowledge which he presents so freely to his fellows is used for weal, and not for ill.
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Blackpool Meeting of the British Association. Nature 138, 274–275 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138274a0
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