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THE NEGLECT OF SCIENCE.
THE GREAT MAN CALLED GREAT BANKNOTE FRAUD
-RAPHAEL
IN ENGLAND
"On the 400th anniversary of the CANCELLED NOTES "PATCHED MR. WELLSH INDIÖTMENT. death of Raphael Sanzio, Rome worth-
ily, celebrated the occasion with a address by the Mayor at the Capitol,
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in the Hall of the Horatü' and Christ,recently of how cancelled £100 Bank research. The meeting was organised!
and a choral elegy in the Pantheon, where the great painter lies buried.
"There, in a single sentence, we
An amazing story came to light
of England notes which have been stolen have been so skilfully patched up that the thieves have succeeded get a fashing reminder of the grand-in cashing them at their full face. cur that was Rome, changing in forma valne. through the long centuries of her existence," says the Telegraph. "And of all her great 'sons-for though he was born at Urbino, and spent his early prime in Florence, Raphael lived in Rome during the last twelve years of his brief but splendid life there is nore whose fame is more secure than his.
Mr. H. G. Welle presided it a meeting at Birkbeck College to urge more public support of scientific by the National Union of Scientific workers, and was attended by many eminent scientie men and other in- terested in education.
Mr. Wells said he was Inclined to regard science as something, more! One of these notes was passed in important than the servant of our the betting ring at Newbury races system of trade and commerce. Too writes a sporting correspondent. of long had science begged for per The Daily Mail. It is only one of mission to exist from politicians and many ingeniously faked notes which princes and rich men. "It is time,' have been cashed in the belief that he said, "that we recognised science | they were perfectly good ones, and as the master, and brought riches the probability is that thousands af and royalties, and nationalities pounds have been netted by the and habits, and prejudices Bid authors of the plot.
all the pompoes superficial things of life to the test for its calm and pitiless judgments. If it is a true bill that the neglect of science is a necessary and inevitable aspect of our present political and social system, then that political and social system has to go." (Cheers.) If the answer was
The details of these extensive "Perhaps his was the most frauds are of a very remarkable viable carcer of any painter who ever!
nature, adds the correspondent, lived. He won instant recognition and
Before the war all back notes Farc. Though Leonardo da Vinci and being returned to the Bank of Eng Michelangelo were his older contem-land were cancelled and sent to a poraries, his genius was at once paper factory to be reduced to pulp acknowledged to be the peer of theirs for conversion into Lew notes. The Success did not turn his head or spoil canellation was done by tearing of Vasari says that he lived as the lower right-hand corner of the a prince rather than as a painter, and notes and perforating three or four that a retinue of fifty students and holes in the centre. assistants used daily to accompany him from his house to the Vatican.
his at.
You walk,' said Michelangelo to him sourly, like a general at the head of an army." And you,' replied the smiling Raphael, like an executioner The on the way to the scaffold." magnificence of the Papal Court of Leo X. stirred and excited his imagina- tion. He basked in its opulent splen- dour. for, whatever the Medici's churchmanship, he was the very prince of patrons, and looked upon Raphael as a god sent down from Heaven to restore the Eternal City to her former splendour.
"What he did, not merely for Rome and for sacred art, but even for religion itself, scores of canvases re- main to bear witness, and thousands to whom sacred art makes little appeal surrender themselves willingly to the haunting influence of his divine but most humaa Madonnas. The Ansidei Madonna in the National Gallery, the Madonna della Seggiola at Florence, the Sistine Madonne of the Incarna tin, and many others, once seen, even in a photograph, remain in the memory always.
"This brilliant artist was portrait- ist, sculptor, architect, and designer for tapestry, wood-carving, and silver work, and flourishing schools of artists sprang up around him and devoted their energies and enthusiasm to the enrichment of churches and of palaces. He chose just the right period to live. when Art was loved and honoured for
Yes it meant that every worker who put science before him as his aim in life must hope and work for revolution. But was the answer Yea?" He did not propose to answer the question.
During the war this practice was
When he was a student science! suspended, the notes being reissued time after time. Recently however, and education were beggars. They What had the old system was reverted to, and were beggars to-day. the notes were cancelled after being happened to the men of science who had given the world all that made it paid in at the Bank of England.
Among the notes lately cancelled better to-day than it was 200 years ago? Inquire into their lives." "Did they die rich? were a large number of £100 notes.
To the surprise of the authorities) he said.
leave established they some of these potes have been paid Did
Examination showed families? With only one or two into banks. that the notes had been most skilfully exceptions the answer is 'no' "repaired."
I think I can perceive a great change, coming over the spirit of the scien- tific workers and teachers of to-day towards wealth and towards the powers which rule na.”
The earner torn off had been care fully replaced by a comer taken from a note of a lower value pro bably £10 and the perforated holes filled in with bank-note paper so neatly as almost to defy defection."
Prompt measures were taken to check the fraud from reaching larger dimensious, and it is safe to assure that it would now be impossible for anyone to cash oze of these notes at a bank.
Mr. Wells concinded: "Scientific workers and teachers are beginning to realise that they have much to hope for and very little to fear from social and economic revolution" (Loud cheers.)
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what appeared to be the Government Apparently, however, they are policy of subordinating scientists to unqualified and incompetent direc being passed at race meetings, and
tors." For the million of money possibly among tradespeople.
How and where the cancelled notes which the Government had expended were stolen remains a complete mysor earmarked for scientific research tery, nor is it knows who the thieves he doubted if pure science had got are and where the notes are being more than a secretariat out of it. So transformed into apparently, negoti- far trade and industrial research had taken the million. He objected to able securuses.
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A repeal of the order may not raise as much enthusiasm among former habitual treaters" as its imposition once raised wrath among them. long period of abstention from treating cornstalks, and wheat straw, and They again visited the host on the has made them realise the slavery of declares that in every instance the following morning, but the bout people that curious expression of good-fellow-results have been the same. He were on the lookout for them, and ship and some of the abuses to which claims that over gasalene it gives 75 raised an-afarm-as-soon as they were per cent, more miles per hour, does sighted. It had the desired effect of it was liable.
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water, ignites instantly with one him, be mok to his heels, the seaman condor of the Andes never swooped turnover of the motor, does not inter- and some of his friends gave chase from nowhere" with more rapidity fere with lubrication, lengthens the and arrested the defendant and took then habitual treatees" swooped life of the mctor, and is not dangerous him to the station. After evidence upon habitual treaters."
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