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called “Deutsche Physik”; “I might rather have said Aryan 
yhysics of the Nordic species [sic] of man 
physics, or the 
According to 
the physics of the very founders of the science.” 
a recent news item, German investigators, by a governmental de- 
cree, are required in their bibliographies to list the cited authors 
— 
separately according to race. 
In the United States, scientific investigators, no matter in what 
subject, have been free to pursue the truth as it is, and to proclaim 
laving to try to bring it into conformity 
it without the necessity of | 
No. inves- 
with any political or sociological or racial ideology. 
tigator or teacher of science has suffered in loss of position, social 
status, or otherwise for proclaiming the results of his research and 
his interpretation of them arrived at with entire freedom of 
thought and work. Science in this country is reconstructed solely 
on the basis of new facts and principles revealed by research, and 
not arbitrarily, with an attempt to bring it into harmony with any 
current propaganda of political revolution. No scientific books 
have been burned in this country because of the race or religion 
of their authors, or because their contents or their authors were 
not in agreement with some prevailing conception of the state. 
In other words, we have not, in this country, reverted to the 
Middle Ages in the administration of our science and education. 
It is true that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, together with prac- 
tically every other institution dependent on either public or private 
support, has operated with diminishing resources during the past 
This is due, in large part, to the failure of men to 
ten years. 
apply the method and spirit as well as the results of science to 
the practical affairs of life. And no problem that confronts the 
human race, outside the realm of religion and morals, 1s of more 
urgent importance than to provide continuing adequate support for 
institutions of science and education. Such institutions cannot 
remain static; they must either go backward or forward.  Hith- 
erto, they have been able to depend, in large part, on private 
benefactions. Private benefactions are derived from surplus of 
income or capital, but in these days it seems to be the deliberate 
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intention of government to abolish surplus by excessive taxation. 
It is like planning to get water for irrigation, or power to generate 
electricity, by draining the great federal dams. 
