THE PROSPECTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 



and cruel, however beneficient and effective in the end. 

 Artificial control in the light of tested knowledge is 

 direct, economical, and humane. Nevertheless, the 

 thoughtful Student of the human epic does not anticipate 

 that man will be able fully to control his social destiny. 

 He aspires only greatly to decrease suffering and to increase 

 happiness. When Hobbes declared that the life of man 

 in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish 

 and short," he epitomized a remote age in the past. 

 We may likewise imagine, under the salutary ministrations 

 of science, a remote age in the future when human life 

 will be sociable, comfortable, wholesome, humane, and en- 

 during, and when the aesthetic values will be all pervasive. 



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