INTRODUCTION IS 



their environment. How thoroughly have they taken con- 

 ditions and turned them to their advantage?" 



"In man this signifies not only the taking advantage of 

 things as they are, but in shaping and directing these 

 and creating new conditions and circumstances for his 

 welfare."* 



So in the economic world, all the physical progress and 

 all the physical comforts that modern civilization has 

 given us are the direct result of applying laws found in 

 the scientific laboratory. All wealth is not produced by 

 labor, as the ignorant believe, but is the product of brains ; 

 labor is productive only when guided by intelligence. 



In fact, science emancipates labor. Bagehot is one of 

 a growing school of thinkers who has pointed out that 

 slavery was essential to progress in the early stages of 

 civilization, as it was only through enforced labor of the 

 many that the few could obtain the leisure to think, and 

 if that thinking by the few had not been done, all would 

 have been destroyed. 



At present in the United States, as Dr. Little has 

 pointed out, "the supply of available energy is equivalent 

 to sixty man power for every man, woman, and child." 

 But, he adds, that "while there is now leisure for all to 

 think, the millions prefer the movies."^ 



It is not labor, but the trained intelligence of scientific 

 men which has made all this power available. No more 

 do we have at regular intervals the seven lean years and 

 the seven fat years that Joseph foretold in Egypt. 



