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these hypotheses as touch human life injuriously that 

 moral culpability can be imputed to science. But in 

 such cases this imputation would be perfectly natural 

 and just, since as already pointed out science is only 

 one among a considerable list of man's major interests, 

 the harmonious interaction among which, and their 

 working to a common end, is the very essence of good 

 morals. 



II. How Science May Meet Its Moral Obligations 



The main task of this paper is that of trying to 

 bring into clear light what there is within the body of 

 science itself that may be made to work positively and 

 mightily for the health and strength and growth of the 

 whole of human life under civilization. 



Before entering upon the task proper it will be well 

 to have a foretaste of its character. In the first place, 

 let us remind ourselves of the intimate way men's ideas 

 about themselves, their estimates of their own worth 

 and the worth of others, their personal conduct, and 

 their treatment of other people, especially those of 

 their own blood kin, and of strangers of alien race, 

 have always been bound up with their beliefs and teach- 

 ings about their own origin. To illustrate, think of 

 the enormous part the doctrines of the Creation, the 

 Fall and the Redemption of man has had in the history 

 of Christian civilization! Keeping in mind the un- 

 doubted fact that man's theories of his own origin and 



