ITS REAL NATURE
A SCIENTIST ON SCIENCE
RISE OF POLITICAL OPPOSITION
STUBBORN HUMAN NATURE.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIRIGHT.)
(RBOTER'S TELEGRAM))
(Received 27th August, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 26th August.
In his presidential address to the British Association, meeting at Southampton, Professor Horace Lamb discussed the" nature and purpose of science. He said that the quarters which were exhibiting suspicion and dislike of science were now political rather than ecclesiastical. The habits of sober accurate analysis promoted by science were not always favourable to social and economic theories, which rested mainly en an emotional basis.
Referring to the disappointment and disillusion sometimes expressed that science had not produced a new era of prosperity and international reconciliation, he pointed out that science was unable to improve human nature; but he claimed that science tended to increase the intellectual material and even the aesthetic possessions of the world.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 5
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143ITS REAL NATURE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 5
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