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Show Suggests A "Brain Pool" Dr. Alexis Carrel is a great surgeon, sur-geon, who has served well his fel-iowm'an fel-iowm'an in his tirofession, but he is .more t:ian a specialist because, in his thought, he is profoundly interested inter-ested in the welfare of human beings. be-ings. We are interested in a recent statement, attributed to him, that the "present knowledge" of the world is too great to be in one tmind. He advocates something like a "brain pool" of the best scientific minds to serve the present age as a "composite Aristotle" to develop a new civilization, based on reality rather than philosophical ideologies. ideolo-gies. Dr. Carrel undoubtedly states a fact when he declares that present knowledge is too great to be in one i.nmd. The scholars of the world have specialized so long and pursued pur-sued their specialties so far that it would require many years more than human beings enjoy to be able to become acquainted with what they have discovered. 1'he chances are, however, that muc.i of this specialized information informa-tion will become useless when some master-mind ascertains certain basic ba-sic principles, which may crystallize present m:ss-knoledge into a gen cf pure wisdom that will serve the world. Perhaps, somewhere in the world today, tnere is a young man or young woman, who has within an alert brain, the germ of understanding under-standing that will sweep away ix'uch cf the debris that now clouds intelligence. |