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THERE is no greater need in our time than the development of the capacity to weigh evidence and form sound judgments, and, having formed independent judgments, to have the reliance to stand by them. Although the main objects of Surgeon-Commander G. Murray Lovick in leading expeditions of school-boys into uninhabited wilds is to widen outlook and to foster the spirit of adventure, one of the chief results must be the encouragement of independence and self-reliance; and no praise can be too high for the enthusiasm and skilled planning which has induced him to shoulder the responsibility of organizing and conducting seven such expeditions for the Public Schools Exploring Society which he founded in 1932. Three of the expeditions have been to Lapland and four to Newfoundland, which affords just those great areas of unmapped and uninhabited country which suit the needs of the young explorers.
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The Spirit of Adventure. Nature 144, 580 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144580c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144580c0