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SURELY the article on “Universities in War-time” in NATURE of July 25, p. 97, omits to mention the most powerful of all motives which impel men to thought and to action at such a time as this and whether they are in a university or in the Fighting Forces ; nowhere is 'love of country' or patriotism mentioned. Our lost capacity for moral indignation is lamented ; I would rather rejoice over the fact that our sense of patriotism is bright and burning as of old. To mark the fate which meantime has overwhelmed France seems to me to supply an infinitely more powerful incentive to endeavour than the fear of a twilight falling on our “moral standards and spiritual values”.
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KEITH, A. Universities in War-time. Nature 150, 180 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150180a0
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