14 THE NEW PHILOSOPHY 



Sciences must always outstrip the Social Sciences. In the first place, 

 the Natural Sciences can use the experimental method, and the Social 

 Sciences have hardly yet devised an adequate substitute. Then again 

 in the Natural Sciences, the inventor and original thinker is rewarded 

 and honored, but in the Social Sciences the inventive mind is more 

 or less ostracised and new ideas that touch upon the key problems 

 of modern life, namely, the control of human and economic activi- 

 ties, are at once branded as radical and dangerous." For this reason I 

 believe that the universities in America may have little to do with the 

 development of the philosophy of the coming century. They do not 

 seem to be generating grounds for courage and virility. I expect, there- 

 fore. a reversal in the position of university influence. In England the 

 spiritual control may grow and thrive from the universities. In America 

 I expect the hope of the New Philosophy to lie, not with university 

 faculties, but with men of the world; with leaders in the industries; 

 with engineers and business men and lawyers and men close to affairs. 

 We must look for a new Christopher Wren, who can look upon life as a 

 whole; for a new James Cook, who is unafraid to put ahead in the 

 blackest sea; for a new Henry Cavendish, who will devote his fortune 

 and his life to the advancement of ideas precious to his fellow men. 

 The New Philosophy must be the philosophy of the control of man's 

 power over himself. The issue is for the youth of this and the next 

 generation. I am glad that the outcome seems to be in doubt ; for this 

 doubt is needed to tempt the conscience of the world's youth, and to 

 challenge them to prove their worth. 



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