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Appendix 1: ICARUS or The Future of Science<br />
Appendix 1: ICARUS or The<br />
Future of Science<br />
This book was written by Bertrand Russell in 1924 in<br />
response to a book by another Marxist, JBS Haldane.<br />
Anyone who wishes to understand the threat that the<br />
Rothschilds pose to humanity needs to read this, maybe<br />
several times to get its full meaning.<br />
I. Introduction<br />
Mr. Haldane's Daedalus has set <strong>for</strong>th an attractive<br />
picture of the future as it may become through the<br />
use of scientific discoveries to promote human<br />
happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his<br />
<strong>for</strong>ecast, a long experience of statesmen and<br />
<strong>government</strong> has made me somewhat sceptical. I am<br />
compelled to fear that science will be used to<br />
promote the power of dominant groups, rather<br />
than to make men happy. Icarus, having been<br />
taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed<br />
by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may<br />
overtake the populations whom modern men of<br />
science have taught to fly. Some of the dangers<br />
inherent in the progress of science while we retain<br />
our present political and economic institutions are<br />
set <strong>for</strong>th in the following pages. This subject is so<br />
vast that it is<br />
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