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OUR civilization is clearly separated from all that have gone before by its reliance upon science. Science makes certain demands on social environment, and among the chief of these is surely freedom of the mind. Without such freedom, our scientific system could not exist or progress: without it, representative institutions cannot be maintained. Milton saw these things very clearly, and it was in the early days of the Royal Society that he wrote:
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Freedom of the Mind. Nature 139, 941â942 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139941a0
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