SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. L] DECEMBER, 1919. [No. 8. 
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British dk feorsy Council. 
yeayg| HERE is nothing very remarkable in the fact that at the present 
time all the leading industrial countries of the. world are 
giving closer attention to the encouragement of scientific 
research. What would be remarkable would be the adoption 
of any other national attitude. The quick rise of Germany 
and of the United States to industrial eminence was -due almost 
wholly to their practical appreciation of the value of science as 
an aid to industry. It is natural that they should turn to the same 
source for purposes of trade reconstruction and national reviviscence, 
and that other countries which were losing ground should seek recovery 
by recourse to similar methods. The fiercer the struggle for industrial 
supremacy becomes the more deeply must the fountain-head of knowledge 
be tapped, and every new discovery must be brought to bear upon the 
scientific laws which govern economic production and the distribution 
of wealth. Science must be applied to the problems of industry, and 
the necessary institutions must be established in order that the economic 
advance may be hastened. Commonplace phrases about the importance 
and grandeur of science are worthless. 
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