Scientists in industrialized England commanded public respect, even veneration. Their widely publicized discoveries promised to elucidate the mysteries of nature, to harness natural forces for human purposes, to increase productivity in fields and factories and to improve the odds in the struggle against disease. The scientific method itself was celebrated as the surest means of attaining truth.
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1986
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