Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ophthalmic Literature, Vol. 6: May, 1916
It will be noticed that in this month's index of ophthalmology is found no reference to any German Ophthalmic journal. This may be partly due to irregularity of issue, but probably depends more on interference with the transmission of mails. A blockade to prevent supplies from going into Germany may have no logical justification when it prevented scientific publications from coming out. But in war logic soon yields to primitive instinct, For many months there has been increasing difficulty and uncertainty about getting these jour nals, and now the blockade has become quite effective against German science.
It becomes more and more clear that if reason and civilization are to prevail against blind passion and barbarism, their interests must be safeguarded before war begins. Science needs preparedness against war; not merely preparedness to make war efficient to the point of race disorganization, and to carry its chief centers of destruo tion Into the enemy's country. The scientific journals of the world represent broad, permanent, vital interests of the race. The impair ment of their efficiency and usefulness is a hint of those general and less Obvious ills that spread abroad when European statesmen opened this modern Pandora's box of war.
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