International Science The creation by the British Association of a
new "inter- national division," concerned primarily with the social and in- ternational relations of science, is a new departure of consider- able interest and quite possibly ofconsiderable importance. If anything in the world is international it is science, and there is no field in which scientists can more profitably meet and pool ideas on advances in human knowledge and the applica- tion of that knowledge for the welfare of humanity. The projected formation of a world association for this purpose will take time to mature, but meanwhile it is wholly fining that closer links should be forged forthwith between the British and the Ameriean Associations for the Advancement of Science. The use of a common language has naturally produced more interchange of ideas between British and American scientists than between either of them and scientists of any other country, and both have benefited in recent years more than any other country by the advent of scientists and scholars for whom life has been made impossible elsewhere. There can be little enduring value in political rapprochement across the Atlantic unless it is based on contact and understanding between British citizens and Americans of all pursuits and professions.
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