FOREWORD 



This book, which was written on a long sea voyage from 

 New York to Sydney at the end of 1962, represents essen- 

 tially six years of my thought since writing my small intro- 

 duction to science "The World of Nature". The quiet of a 

 month at sea provides an ideal environment in which to set 

 down ones conclusions on the fundamental problems of 

 Mankind, to which problems too many people give far too 

 little thought today. Man is now in such an advanced stage 

 of his evolutionary development in which it is possible for 

 him to understand the significance of life for him, not as a 

 matter of religious belief, but as the opportunity to use his 

 inherent abilities to work towards a world transcending in 

 its perfection any of which he could have dreamed before 

 the advent of science. I have here written about Man's bio- 

 logical, social, and scientific advances in order to show 

 that science is essentially the most recent phase of human 

 evolution, and that it is entirely conceivable for us to choose 

 to base our world civilization solely on reasoned, objectively 

 provable, thought: that is, science. The arguments for the 

 fimdamental conclusion of the necessity to accept a scientific 

 philosophy, which I have called individualism, are given in 

 full, and the way in which to achieve the practical realiza- 

 tion of a scientifically ordered world is discussed. It is my 

 hope that, after their careful reading of this book, my readers 

 will appreciate that the scientific world view offers us the 

 only rationally acceptable way to solve the great problems 

 of our century. 



S. Archer. 



Pacific Ocean, December, 1962. 



