The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Religion
The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
The formation of groups in, and not only in, but about and in relation
to, the scientific world, which will add to those first main activities
of the Open Conspiracy, propaganda and pacificism, a special attention
to the needs of scientific work, may be enlarged upon with advantage
here, because it will illustrate quite typically the idea of a special
work carried on in relation to a general activity, which is the subject
of this section.
The Open Conspiracy extends its invitation to all sorts and conditions
of men, but the service of scientific progress is for those only who
are specially equipped or who are sufficiently interested to equip
themselves. For scientific work there is first of all a great need
of endowment and the setting up of laboratories, observatories,
experimental stations and the like in all parts of the world. Numbers
of men and women capable of scientific work never achieve it for want
of the stimulus of opportunity afforded by endowment. Few contrive to
create their own opportunities. The essential man of science is very
rarely an able collector or administrator of money and anyhow the
detailed work of organisation is a grave call upon his special mental
energy. But many men capable of a broad and intelligent appreciation
of scientific work, but not capable of the peculiar intensities of
research, have the gift of extracting money from private and public
sources, and it is for them to use that gift modestly and generously in
providing the framework for those more especially endowed.
And there is already a steadily increasing need for the proper storage
and indexing of scientific results, and every fresh worker enhances it.
Quite a considerable amount of scientific work goes fruitless or is
needlessly repeated, because of the growing volume of publication, and
men make discoveries in the field of reality only to lose them again in
the lumber-room of record. Here is a second line of activity to which
the Open Conspiracy with a scientific bias may direct his attention.
A third line is the liaison work between the man of science and the
common intelligent man; the promotion of publications which will
either state the substance, implications and consequences of new work
in the vulgar tongue, or, if that is impossible, train the general
run of people to the new idioms and technicalities which need to be
incorporated with the vulgar tongue if it is still to serve its ends as
a means of intellectual intercourse.
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