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wise the diffusion of a scientific mood which will insist 

 on basing all sorts of action — personal and communal, 

 national and international — on securely established 

 facts. Our hope is in Science as well as in the 

 sciences, as a way out of our traditional muddling 

 through. 



In years to come, we believe, the State will habitually 

 and as a matter of course summon the scientific expert 

 to her aid, an expedient which has already begun to be 

 tried. In face of every difficult problem, the first 

 demand will be for the facts and an understanding of 

 them. In many cases, at present urgent, the needed 

 counsel cannot be given, for the requisite knowledge 

 does not exist. We need more Science. On the other 

 hand, the extent to which already available knowledge 

 is left unused is deplorable, and the results have been 

 very costly. When we think of the more effective and 

 less wasteful exploitation of the earth, or of gathering 

 the harvest of the sea, or of making occupations more 

 wholesome, or of beautifying human surroundings, or 

 of exterminating infectious diseases, or of raising the 

 health-rate, or of improving the physique of the race, 

 or of recognising the physiological side of education, we 

 are amazed at the non-utilisation of valuable — though 

 confessedly incomplete — scientific knowledge. Much 

 has been done, but it must be confessed that Man is 

 slow to follow Science into the possession of his kingdom. 

 Part of the reason is that we have not become ac- 

 customed, except in some directions, e.g. medical 

 treatment, to believe in Science ; but a great part of 



