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of scientific knowledge and to distribute its splendid products. It 

 merits hearty recognition among the nations. It is full of possibilities. 

 A world-wide co-operation In pure science would promote an inter- 

 nationalism which, unlike the League of Nations, would not bring us 

 into "fatal collision with the principle of nationality everywhere active 

 and powerful." It is a type of community life which seems specially 

 adapted to world-wide development, and if so developed should bring 

 us nearer to the unification of mankind than any form of internation- 

 alism hitherto suggested. In pure science, communism is a natural law; 

 rank, status, race, religion, nationality should count for nothing. The 

 underlying principle here is the universalism of science and the 

 catholicity of truth. 



