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As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare.In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased.He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge.For many years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind.Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but the end results, of modern science.Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages.The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our
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