CHAPTER I 



SCIENCE FOR LIFE 



§ 1. What is Meant by Science. — § 2. Science and Human 

 Life. — § 3. The Dangers of Short-sighted Utilitarianism, 

 — § 4. The Higher Services of Science to Human Welfare. — 

 § 5. The Larger Ends. 



OUR age is marked by two very strong tendencies — 

 the democratic and the scientific. Some key- 

 words of the democratic tendency are * liberation,' 



* solidarity,' ' participation,' * equal opportunities.' Some 

 key-words of the scientific tendency are ' accuracy,' 



* verification,' ' systematization,' ' control.' Secure pro- 

 gress in the years ahead will in great part depend on 

 increased interaction between these two powerful 

 tendencies, — that democratic movements become better 

 informed and more thoroughly imbued with the scientific 

 spirit, and that scientific interests be increasingly 

 sociaHzed and directed towards the reHef of man's 

 estate. 



§ 1. What is Meant by Science 

 Ever since man began to find himself, he has been 

 applying knowledge to the securing of wealth and 



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