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THE world stands on the brink of the abyss. Before these words appear in print, it may have taken the plunge; and ten million men will already have entered on the initial phase of a struggle, of which none can foresee the end, except it be in disaster. the efforts of those, who during the last twenty years have striven to reconstruct a civilization shaken to its foundations by the war of 1914–18, have been frustrated by the incompatibility of their aims with the exclusive methods of national regeneration. In all the antagonisms of recent years, the voice of science, except where throttled by the political partisan, has been steadfast in support of freedom of thought and toleration—to those of this way of thinking, essentials of social and intellectual advance, but now threatened root and branch by the aggressions of a totalitarian nationalism.
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Science and the National Ideal. Nature 144, 408 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144408b0
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