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A revolutionary change has occurred in institutional relations between science and the federal government. A. Hunter DupreeAll the many evocations of the figure of the scientific revolution as a description of this or of any other age are metaphors based upon metaphors. Between the changes in ideas which make up a scientific revolution and the turning wheel lie the great political and social upheavals of history, of which the greatest and most fully developed model is the French Revolution. The meaning of revolution in political and social terms has never ceased to attract and to baffle the profoundest of scholars. Hence it is little wonder that we seem to live in the midst of a superfluity of scientific revolutions that overlap and sometimes contradict one another, each related in a different way, by analogy, to political revolution. J. Stefan Dupre and Sanford A. Lakoff, in Science and the Nation: Policy and Politics (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962. 181 pp. $1.95), have taken pains to delimit their revolution. They keep well clear of the changes in the body of scientific understanding itself and only imply the significance of both the classical industrial revolution and the changed relation of science to technology. In a qualified way they recognize these last two revolutions, in the sense that C. P. Snow described them in the Two Cultures and the Scientific

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