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too sure that eupsychics (good education) may not 

 be the shortest way to eutopia (good environment). 

 Progress is manifold, but the organism is one. 



§ 3. A Contribution to the Critique of Progress 

 We are here in sight of a principle, a contribution 

 to the critique of progress. Civilisation has been handi- 

 capped in the past by insufficient use of Science as a 

 torch to well-being. This handicap continues, but it is 

 lessening. The more we use Science for life the better, 

 but there is the risk of being guided too much by one 

 science. 



Our kindly social sentiment and sense of soHdarity 

 is a sign of progress ; every right-minded person hopes 

 for more. And yet, we help the sickly, the diseased, 

 the thriftless, the feckless, and we must go on helping 

 them, for we have thrown off forever the old rat-against- 

 rat theory. We have thrown off the yoke of Natural 

 Selection. And yet, if we persist in sheltering inferiority 

 from the penalties of inferiority, if we persist in not 

 allowing superiority to reap anything like the fuU 

 rewards of superiority, we are assuredly making for 

 trouble. So some brave men would return to Lycurgan 

 methods, to Plato's purgation of the State. But we 

 cannot do this wisely, we have not knowledge enough ; 

 and we would not if we could. We must think out 

 subtler ways, conservative of such higher values as 

 good-will, and yet safeguarding us from being kind to 

 the present and cruel to the future. If we generalise 

 this we get a glimpse of a critique of progress, — ^we must 



