HUMAN LIFE 



THE BIOLOGIST AND THE PUBLIC 



Now these matters of war and juvenile 

 delinquency and racial well-being which 

 I have referred to are all important 

 problems in human life and to all of them 

 the biologist can admittedly make some 

 enlightening contribution. They are but 

 three examples of the many problems of 

 human life with obvious and fundamen 

 tal biological aspects. But how little has 

 the world, although intensely interested 

 in these problems and anxiously trying 

 to solve them, taken any advantage of 

 the special knowledge offered by the 

 biologist in connection with them. And 

 this in spite of the fact that it has been 

 in recent years quite the fashion to invite 

 the biologist to talk about such problems 

 and even to listen to him with a tolerant 

 interest. But why the fashion of listening 

 to his advice and at the same time the 

 fashion of not acting on it? Well, it is not 

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