Political science From: Ideas on Liberty | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Foundation for Economic Education, Incorporated Apr 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Richard Cobden, nineteenth-century Britain's tireless advocate of peace and free trade, pointed out that violence-the essence of the state-changes the very nature of a thing. Just as forced religion isn't really religion, he said, so forced trade isn't really trade. That was his answer to the "free-trade imperialists" of his time.

He could have added a third example: science. At its best, science is the pursuit of the truth about physical reality. Its practitioners should be fearless and relentless seekers of the facts. If they are not, what's the point?

But science dominated by government is ...

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