26o THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE 



trine of necessity of the Germans which has plunged 

 Europe into war. No individual and no nation can 

 believe for long that in him or in it rest the culture 

 and the power of the world without resorting ulti- 

 mately to the arbitrament of force to overcome opposi- 

 tion. And on the other hand, the ideal of a world 

 governed by human evolution and depending on 

 brotherly love a world under a banner floating from 

 a Peace Palace of The Hague is a dream of sentimen- 

 tality. And yet, one or the other seems to me the goal 

 of eugenical righteousness. But because science is not 

 concerned primarily with problems of character, it 

 does not follow that its pursuit does not promote char- 

 acter. We certainly enrich the character by the larger 

 acquisition of power which results from the modifying 

 and dominating of our environment. This is true, if 

 side by side with increased power to do things, we 

 also learn to use it for the benefit of humanity; that 

 is, when it is regulated according to the inner check of 

 piety, as taught by those in whom we recognize the 

 mysterious power of righteousness. 



If I have made myself clear, the limitations of sci- 

 ence are due solely to the fact that there are, in addi- 

 tion to material forces, others of an essentially dif- 

 ferent kind which may be called, for lack of a better 

 name, spiritual powers. And so long as men of sci- 

 ence restrict their endeavor to the world of material 

 substance and material force, they will find that their 



