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THE USEFULNESS OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE

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science in making war more destructive and more horrible was an unconscious and unintended by-product of scientific activity. Lord Rayleigh, president of the British Association for the Advance-ment of Science, in a recent address points out in detail how the folly of man, not the intention of the scientists, is re-sponsible for the destructive ...

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