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IF I may say a word more about “The Man of Science as Aristocrat”, I would like to point out to my friend Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon that my suggestion, as Sir Richard Paget realizes, was of an inner aristocracy of the spirit in an entirely democratic world. I did not suggest that men of thought and knowledge should rule or control anybody or anything outside the range of their distinctive gifts. I suggested that within that range they should refuse absolutely to be directed, controlled or silenced by anybody, that they should bear themselves like brains with a backbone, and not like flexible slaves.
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WELLS, H. “The Man of Science as Aristocrat”. Nature 147, 610 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147610a0
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