. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. Ill, No. 30. JUNE 1922. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveixg, , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John , 50.^ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office : 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; single numbers, I


. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. Ill, No. 30. JUNE 1922. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveixg, , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John , 50.^ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office : 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net : postage, id. Binding cases for \'ol. IL 1921, are now read}-. Price 25. 6d. net each ; postage, grf. Editorial Notes \\"e feel sure that a consideration of certain aspects of the Genoa Conference will not be out of place here. The particular political and economic questions which have been deliberated at Genoa—the treaty of Rapallo, for instance, or the problem of Russia's pajTnent of her debts to ourselves and France—are not the concern of these notes. \\'hat does concern us is the historical significance of the Conference. Whatever its eventual results, the Conference will have been s^anptomatic of a steadily growing international consciousness. On more than one occasion we have commented on this striking tendency of the new era upon which we believe we are entering. What lies at the back of these conferences, of these attempts by the great nations to harmonise their conflicting interests ? An idealism, surely, matured by two \-ital realisations—that the nations of the world, and in particular the United States of Europe, to use a term coined by Mr. H. G. Wells, are so closely bound together by financial and economic ties, that open co-operation between them is essential; and that another great war using ten times the destructive material of the last may deal a death- blow to our already sorely wounded and slowlv recover- ing civilisation. To state these t


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