A National Focus of Science and Research Classic Reprint

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The purpose of the National Academy differs materially from that of the vast number of Special societies that have advanced science by the encouragement of Specialization. Without them, it is true, science could never have reached its present high development, as its immense range renders concentration on particular problems essential. But in the very nature of the case such con centration develops narrowness of View.

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