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DAEDALUS
OR
SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE


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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW SERIES


DAEDALUS, or Science and theFuture
By J. B. S. Haldane

ICARUS, or The Future of Science
By Bertrand Russell, F.R.S.

THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST, or Man and His Three Faces
By F. G. Crookshank, M.C., F.R.C.P.

WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES
By Prof. A. M. Low


E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY


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DAEDALUS

OR

Science and the Future

A PAPER READ TO THE HERETICS, CAMBRIDGE

ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 1923.

BY

J. B. S. HALDANE

Sir William Dunn Reader in Bio-chemistry

Cambridge University

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New York

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

681 Fifth Avenue


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Copyright, 1924

By E. P. Dutton & Company


All Rights Reserved

First Printing, April, 1924
Second Printing, May, 1924
Third Printing, August, 1924
Fourth Printing, October, 1924
Fifth Printing, December, 1924
Sixth Printing, December, 1924
Seventh Printing, April, 1925
Eighth Printing, June, 1925
Ninth Printing, June, 1925


Printed in the United States of America


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INTRODUCTION

I have slightly expanded certain parts of this paper since readingit. It has therefore probably lost any unity which it may once havepossessed. It will be criticized for its undue and unpleasant emphasison certain topics. This is necessary if people are to be induced tothink about them, and it is the whole business of a university teacherto induce people to think.


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