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tous, and may be got rid of when Man pleases, leaving 

 him more free for higher adventure. '* Many evils," 

 said Maarten Maartens, " are not of God's appointing, 

 but of man's approving." Science can bring about 

 great amelioration in the domain of things, in the realm 

 of organisms, and even in the kingdom of Man. Our 

 hope is that action will be increasingly based on scientific 

 facts, and that the habit of mind which insists on this 

 will spread. For knowledge is foresight, and foresight is 

 power. 



It has been said that there are two main views of 

 this world of ours, that which regards it as a swamp 

 to be crossed as quickly as possible, and that which 

 regards it as a marsh land to be reclaimed. There is 

 no doubt which is the scientific view. Man must con- 

 tinue the long-drawn-out struggle against inhibitions 

 and limitations — the campaign which living creatures 

 have been engaged in for millions of years ; he must 

 press on in the endeavour to bring the inorganic into 

 the service of the organic, to bring the body-mind into 

 subordination to the mind-body, to liberate individuality 

 in the bonds of neighbourliness ; he must seek to elimi- 

 nate the disorderly, the ugly, the discordant, the 

 involutionary at each and every level ; he must try, 

 not despairing of his weaknesses, to lean his weight on 

 the side of the integrative or evolutionary. 



Professor John Dewey declared the other day that " the 

 future of our civilisation depends upon the widening 

 spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of 



