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formal training may have fitted him for this side of his 

 work. The not distant future is, I think, bound to see 

 the now rudimentary psycho-therapy work great 

 changes in medical theory and practice. 



The "get together" slogan of modern business is 

 needed in modern philosophy. As a man of science I 

 am filled with consternation as I come really to think 

 about the part science has been made to play in the 

 present world holocaust. Superposed upon the physi- 

 cal tragedy of the Lusitania I see another tragedy no 

 less shocking a tragedy of the human soul. 



The civilization of the modern West is the climax of 

 all the civilizations of the world, and its most distinctive 

 attribute is physical science. So men of science have 

 affirmed and hardly any one has questioned the affirma- 

 tion. In no way, all agree, is the greatness of science 

 more manifest than in its application to satisfying the 

 practical needs and desires of man. And few achieve- 

 ments of applied science have been more applauded 

 than the trans-oceanic liner. 



Now behold the marvel that has come to pass ! Sci- 

 ence produces and successfully operates these noble 

 ships and at the self-same time and in much the same 

 way, not only produces an instrument for instantly 

 destroying them but actually does destroy them, heed- 

 less that hundreds of innocent human beings are in- 

 volved in the ruin ! Has the world ever seen or con- 

 ceived anything more astounding at the hands of man? 

 Is it really true that the motive power behind civiliza- 



