Full text: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA 
la recherche de la vérité pour elle-méme (*), et, élevant sa pensée 
au-dessus de toute préoccupation utilitaire, affirmait qu’il ne deman- 
dait rien d'autre aux nouveaux « Académiciens Pontificaux » que de 
se consacrer, avec une ferveur toujours plus grande, au progrès de 
la science et, par là, au culte de la vérité: « C’est Notre souhait 
ardent et Notre ferme espérance que par cet Institut, à la fois 
Nôtre et leur, les “Académiciens Pontificaux” contribuent toujours 
plus et mieux au progrès des sciences, Nous ne leur demandons pas 
autre chose; car en ce dessein généreux et ce noble labeur consiste 
le service, qu’en faveur de la vérité, Nous attendons de leur part ». 
La consécration pratique de cette idée, par la nomination d’un 
certain nombre de non-catholiques parmi les nouveaux Académiciens 
Pontificaux, a fait une profonde impression sur beaucoup d’esprits, 
comme l'ont montré les réactions de la presse internationale de 
l’époque et de nombreux témoignages individuels d’hommes de 
science et des plus grands savants du monde. 
(*) « Nobis autem in votis expectationeque est, fore ut “Pontificii Aca- 
demici” vel per hoc Nostrum suumque studiorum Institutum, ad scientiarum 
progressionem fovendam amplius excelsiusque procedant; ac nihil praeterea 
aliud petimus, quandoquidem hoc eximio praeclaroque labore famulatus ille 
nititur servientium veritati, quem ab iisdem postulamus ». 
In his immortal « Motu Proprio » of October 28, 1936, Pope Pius XI, 
on the contrary, solemnly proclaimed the dignity of the search for truth 
for its own sake (*) and, raising his thoughts above all preoccupations of 
an utilization nature, asserted that all he asked of the new « Pontifical 
Academy » and its members was that they should dedicate themselves, 
with increasing fervour, to the furthering of the progress of science and, 
consequently, to the cult of truth: « It is Our ardent wish and firm hope 
that, by means of this Institute, which is both Ours and theirs, the 
‘’Pontifical Academicians’’ will contribute to an increasingly great extent 
to the progress of science. We ask nothing more than that from them 
because the service in favour of truth that We expect from them consists 
in this generous intention and noble work ». 
By including a certain number of non-Catholics amongst the new 
Pontifical Academicians, the practical application of this idea made a deep 
impression on many persons, as is proved by the reaction of the interna-
	        
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