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HE Egyptian government has turned down John D. Rockefeller’s offer of $10,000,000 to build and main tain in Cairo a museum of antiquities. The Egyptians haven’t gone in for scientific collection and arrangement despite the fact that their land is a treasure house. They don’t want sci ence; they don’t know how to use it. Probably they are afraid of it. When Mr. Rockefeller went after the hook worm disease, a malady resulting from filth and ignorance a Southern bishop roared his disapproval. He didn't want medical science. Better that chil dren should have their energy ex hausted, that barefooted men and wo men should remain sick and languid, than that doctors and sanitarians should come in and cure and clean. Countries and communities that reject science usually stand still. There are reasons why the Egyptian farmer irri gates his fields by much the same meth ods that were employed in days of Pha roah, plows his ground with a crooked stick and lives on about the same plane as his ox. A government that wants nothing to do with science would be pretty certain to be the notorious unsuc cess that the Egyptian government has been.
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Quincy Morning Whig Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Mon, May 03, 1926

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Kelley L.

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