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SCIENCE AND THE NATION 
Essays by Cambridge Graduates 
with an Introduction by the 
Right Hon. Lord Moulton, K.C.B., F.R.S. 
Edited by A. C. SEWARD, F.R.S., Master of Downing College, Cambridge. 
It is the aim of the authors of these essays to present the results of 
experience in scientific investigation, to illustrate by concrete examples the 
sources of progress in a few departments of knowledge and so make clear 
to the layman the position of research as a factor in national prosperity. 
Each Essay has been written by some one who, by lifelong study and practice 
of the Branch of Science to which it relates, has qualified himself to give a 
just and authoritative description of the work that has already been done as 
well as of the bearing of that work on the present and its promise for the 
future. 
Extracts from Press Notices 
1 ‘ One of the most important and most illuminating of recently published volumes on the place 
of science in national life....The admirable essays contained in the volume give assurance that the 
men who are chiefly responsible for the direction of scientific instruction in this country have the 
root of the matter in them, that British science is sound and vigorous at its centre, and that what 
is mainly required is the intellectual and financial support of the nation as a whole.”— Leading 
Article in Glasgoiv Herald 
“ This is a fascinating book, and it fulfils its purpose admirably of helping ordinary people to 
grasp the value of scientific research....The essays are the clearest popular exposition with which 
we are acquainted of the achievements of modern science in the service of man.”— Inquirer 
“In essay after essay—from the impressive opening one on ‘The National Importance of 
Chemistry’ to that on ‘The Government of Subject Peoples,’ which concludes the series—we 
have a recital of the achievements of science in its various branches, and it is brought home 
to us in the most convincing manner how the great discoveries and inventions—coal-tar dyes, 
X-rays, wireless telegraphy, the production of a rust-resisting wheat of large yielding capacity, 
the modern treatment of disease—have all been rendered possible and are all the outcome of a 
‘ steady pursuit of knowledge by rational and intelligent research. ’ ’ ’— New Statesman 
‘ ‘ The chapters are of the utmost interest to the general reader; they give him compactly and 
authoritatively a sound idea of the scope and value of contemporary work in chemistry, physics, 
botany, geology, medicine, mathematics, and anthropology.”— Nature 
‘ ‘ The whole region of scientific research is surveyed by the contributors to Science and the 
Nation, and their observations will be invaluable to those who really wish to have a firm grasp of 
the true problems of intellectual reconstruction on the scientific side.”— Morning Post 
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