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IN most directions we have had to abandon our aspirations and sanguine prophecies of a reconstruction which should lead to a better world and almost justify the horrors of war. But in one direction hope remains; there has certainly been a growth in the popular appreciation of science. However, like most good things, it has its dangers; it was the applications of science, rather than science itself, which stimulated popular interest during the war. We are not yet sure that the better judgment of value is based on a better understanding; and, if it is not, if science is to be appreciated merely because it is useful in the arts of war and peace, we shall soon be wishing fervently that interest may once more be replaced by apathy.
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Rev. Hector Macpherson. (Pioneers of Progress: Men of Science. Edited by Dr. S. Chapman.) Pp. 78. (London: S.P.C.K.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919.) Price 2s. net.
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Alexander Macfarlane. (Mathematical Monographs: No. 20.) Pp. 144. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1919.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
(3) Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Prof. F. O. Bower. (Pioneers of Progress Men of Science. Edited by Dr. S. Chapman.) Pp. 62. (London: S.P.C.K.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919.) Price 2s. net.
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C., N. (1) Herschel (2) Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (3) Joseph Dalton Hooker. Nature 104, 561–562 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104561a0
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