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The Baconian scheme can be delayed, but it cannot be stopped. People who think otherwise, who seek to relegate large parts of humanity to the status of animals, and who thereby challenge Bacon's law of progress, take the risk of being answered, as the Japanese warlords were answered at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, by a Power that admits of no dispute.

In the 20th century, two important rulers have tried to rebel against Bacon's philosophy. Both failed. The first of these was Hitler, who drove genuine scientists from his country and proclaimed that 'a new and magical interpretation of the world is coming'. The second, Mao Tse-Tung, had a more flexible mind and was able to change his policy when he saw that it was leading his country to ruin.