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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 169, 18 July 1924, Page 7

NO SCIENCE MONOPOLY.

EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE. ON RACIAL BIAS. He international aspect of science ns stressed by a number of the ipeakera at a banquet in celebration of the jubilee of the Physical Society in London, which was attended by the Mc of Tort, the Prime Minister and SltssMacDonald, the Lord Chancellor, Uie : Freiicb. and Japanese Ambassadors j md. eminent scientists from many tonntries in addition to our own. "The international aspect of your irori," said the Duke of York, "cannot fail-to appeal to those who, like myself, ire impelled by the belief that scientific discoveries are inevitably to be regarded v the possession of the whole civilised world, and can never be considered lie monopoly of any one country, nttion or people." Tie Prime Minister mentioned with pride that the first president of the toriety was the late Dr. Gladstone, his foher-in-law. "lean remember what a glorious uupiration the scientific man gave to tee who lived strenuous and useful livM. In those days Huxley was alive, Tytdall was also alive. "In those days we read of the latest imouncements in penny pamphlets, JiJ we laid down those pamphlets falmg we had received great inspiration. It gave us a bent of mind, it gave a lonesty. Call for Simplification. "md bow lam troubled. I went to V friend, Lord Haldane, not long ago •Masked'him if he could assure mc wetter the elementary textbook of JWce could survive the tremendous weoreries: which yon gentlemen have «&. adding to our knowledge durine .Us past few years. . S Can we ever simplify things ■£»»... I believe the day of the great mphast is beginning to dawn again. I believe that the time is about "wng when a scientist will appear mo. IB more than an expert—an expert ■™> a wide, comprehending, co*»ting mind) win take U p a ii Par work and show how it tends to *EB?TL?- a unity of idea "Science knows no frontiers," eaid W Haldane. In science the wwns were almost as one, because 1 ™n there were cleat conceptions nCe^ tlon3 were the ideaa °f £°Ple who thought in identical terms, raer?t\ o T + T ere dealin ° with ideae B ° E+- r here was no room for r aw "nnctione of racial bias. Thomson said there Was a Government which had a rf£erK Ciat i? n Of tLe ■ta£\r the P reaen t one. The ftrnW Inlßter i in hIS effort i 0 B °lve Sttat „ ?* .VMa-ptoyma*. would «• ?re a t,r °/ he gl : eatest aidß in