3 2 4 GRAND STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION 



butes are rightly the chief subjects of all man's re- 

 ligious, scientific, and philosophic thought. Rightly 

 to know and to utilize the saving and creative ways 

 and to avoid the destructive ones is the goal of all his 

 endeavors. 



XI. The Community of Purpose in Science and Re- 

 ligion 



Thus when we analyze the intellectual .life of man, 

 we find that its motive is everywhere the same. Man's 

 motive is profit, or growth. Science, which is the or- 

 ganized intellectual life of mankind, has three chief 

 functions, all serving the same purpose, profit. 

 First, to explore and to chronicle. To that end science 

 aims to discover what things are contained in nature, 

 where they are, what they do, and what the order is, 

 step by step, of their coming in, their growing up, and 

 their going out. Second, to compare, to explain, and 

 to distinguish right from wrong, or how things may, 

 or may not be done. To that end, science aims to dis- 

 cover why things are as they are, in what respects they 

 differ, what they have in common, how one thing in- 

 fluences another, for good or evil, constructively or de- 

 structively. Her third function is to act construc- 

 tively, or to create. To that end her purpose is to 

 regulate man's conduct in profitable accordance with 

 nature's way of doing things. In the execution of this 

 purpose, Science completes its functioning by passing, 

 over into Art, as thought passes over into constructive 

 action. 



Thus three qualifying motives pervade science: the 

 acquisitive, the ethical, and the moral. She seeks 



