Soviet genetics and world science : Lysenko and the meaning of heredity / [Julian Huxley].
- Julian Huxley
- Date:
- 1949
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Soviet genetics and world science : Lysenko and the meaning of heredity / [Julian Huxley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The aims to which the cultural and ideological system is adjusted are partial and limited. They are the aims of the Soviet State in the mid-twentieth century, and no attention is paid to the general aims of humanity as a whole. In fact, humanity is considered as divided into two inevitably hostile camps, and the form of the cultural system is related to this division. In any case, as a result of recent events in the U.S.S.R., science as a whole has lost its unity. It is no longer in essential a world activity, that is, one tran scending the partial frame-works of nationalism and religion, but has become split into two. The Nazis tried to split it into German, Aryan or Nordic science as opposed to non-Ayran, Jewish or Bolshevik science ; the Russians have now succeeded in splitting it into Soviet, Marxist, Communist or materialist science as against foreign, bourgeois, capitalist or idealist science. In the west, we believe that science in the proper sense of the word must inevitably be one and inter national, and that such a separation is unnatural and unreal. To the extent that Soviet science manages to be separate and different from science elsewhere, it will fall short of its possibilities of usefulness and value, not only to humanity at large, but to the U.S.S.R. However, it will take time before these unfortunate consequences are realized in the U.S.S.R. ; and meanwhile the progress of humanity at large towards greater knowledge and greater power is being impeded. Addendum i While the proofs of this book were] being corrected, I received a copy of Speaking of Peace, the report on the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, held in March 1949 (New York, National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions). It is too late to discuss here the many points of interest which it contains concerning recent developments in science and culture in the U.S.S.R. I must, however, refer to the remarks of Professor Oparin (p. 43).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022777_0210.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
