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UNCONSCIOUS EDUCATIONAL PROCESS. The paradox is that in Germany, where the political machine could enforce sound scientific measures, the scientists are in chains, while in Britain the .scientists are free to speak, and the politicians slow to move, says the “Scotsman.” It is easier to propagate a false doctrine of racial superiority, that feeds on the ambitions and prejudices of a multitude, than to modify national habits in accordance with scientific discoveries. But an almost unconscious educational process is taking place. The average man today is probably more truly scientific in spirit than was his grandfather. It may be hoped that the spread of knowledge will make it easier for politicians to persuade the electorate to accept the measures which have scientific justification, but even in the newest of new orders it would be optimistic to expect free people to accept without personal judgment the “ipse dixit” of a scientist in matters intimately affecting their own lives. Scientific dictators might even be worse than the political kind.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1941, Page 4
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169PARADOXICAL POSITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1941, Page 4
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