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THERE are those who affect to believe that scientific people are somehow responsible for the war: whereas, in fact, because of the international character of their interests and friendships, they are singularly innocent. Each generation tends to imagine that its own experience, like its fashions of thought, expression or personal adornment, is unique. This war, therefore, must have some special cause—why not blame it on science? The fact is that history books are already full (too full) of conquerors out for glory and loot, guilty of persecution and treachery, moving masses of ordinary decent men to follow them in hysterias worked up by appealing to fear, hatred and greed.
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A Directorate of Scientific Information. Nature 144, 645–646 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144645a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144645a0