information and discussion on this subject. Even
in his own plans outlined in the chapter on " The
Re-organization of Research " he recognizes that
" the old sciences . . . like astronomy and chemistry
have accumulated centuries of autonomous tradi-
tion; they have whole sections which are separate
both from technical theory and from technical
practice and develop to a considerable extent
according to their own internal necessities " (p. 280).
But the recognition is only de facto, not de jure',
on the same page, when outlining scientific organiza-
tions, we read that their first stage " will be occupied
mainly with what has been called pure, but should
more accurately be called sophisticated, science."

Scornfully the Marxist rejects here any claim of
science to be pursued merely for the sake of dis-
covering truth. Although it is recognized that the
desire to discover and to understand the external
world is at present a motive to scientific endeavour,
and though such a motive is even approved of as
part of the disposition of the socially minded
scientist of the future (pp. 97 and 273), it is thought
absurd that any economic system would pay a
scientist just to search for truth.

One is tempted to return the charge of snobbism :
We scientists who know so well the delight of study,
the excitement at the dawn of understanding, the
profound satisfaction in mastering thought; we
whose daily work is stirred by such emotions; we
citizens of a scientific world solely concerned with
work of this character; should we deny that other
people than ourselves are also capable of enjoying
the study and understanding of truth, the spectacle
of its progress through discovery ? That they can
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