Imaginary Message From the Past
"TF I may bring a message from my age to yours, I would say three things: first, do not let the advance of science slacken, for knowledge is power, and the pursuit of truth is one of the ultimate and eternal imperatives for men. Second, do not allow science to be divorced from morality.. Your age has different views on morality from mine, but we both agree that moral rectitude is another of the ultimate human imperatives, and that it is linked with some thing outside ourselves, Finally, there is freedom. One of the sentences I am proud to have written is this: ‘It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.’".-Thomas Henry Huxley, in an imaginary interview conducted by Julian Huxley, in the BBC overseas series "Science Notebook.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 23
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142Imaginary Message From the Past New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 23
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