SCIENCE
"The fallacy of blaming science for the employment of its inventions by governments and their engineers for uses which scientific man never contemplated is obyious enough. One might as well say that it is a pity that the chemistry which has given us medicinal drugs, antesethetics, antiseptics, perfumes, artificial silk etc., was ever developed because this lias enabled some to manufacture cocaine and heroin, poisonous gas and high explosives. But when this prejudice goes on to assert thsjf the armament race which science ts supposed to have inspired always leads to war, the statement is almost the reverse of the truth. Practically all the major wars from 1870 onward broke out because one party had! hot kept pace with the aggressor in armament; whereas a fair equality in the armament race has, as in 1911, repeatedly checked wouldbe aggressors and prevented war." —Mr Joseph McCabe, in his book 'The Golden Ages of History."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 144, 20 August 1941, Page 8
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154SCIENCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 144, 20 August 1941, Page 8
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