Science and Citizenship 



sacred texts. A momentous decision was reached. 

 It was concluded that a sufficient degree of tradi- 

 tional sanctity did not attach to the writings of 

 the economists, the psychologists, the sociologists, 

 and some other orders. The writings of these 

 were accordingly omitted from that authorised 

 canon, which is now in course of actual compila- 

 tion under the title of "The International Catalogue 

 of Scientific Papers." It is clear from these evi- 

 dences of internal disruptiveness, that science as 

 a whole does not at the present moment possess 

 that cohesiveness and unity of aim which are 

 vital to a period of demiurgic spiritual effort. 



XXIV 



On the evidence of internal disintegration one 

 would infer that science has either passed, or has 

 not yet reached, its constructive synthetic era. But 

 are there not signs around us which point to a 

 coming and even incipient period, in which science 

 will develop its doctrine of human life as a great 

 spiritual power ? The clearest notes in this scien- 

 tific chord which is beginning to sound are perhaps 

 the geographical and the biological ones. 



We have seen how the geographer, no longer 

 merely interpreting the present by the aid of the 

 past, is beginning to have visions of the future. 

 In seeing the city as the realisation of regional 

 potencies, he cannot but feel also an ideal impulse 

 towards organising the city as an optimum adap- 

 tation of the regional environment to human life. 



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