14 SCIENCE 



civilisation could go on at all still more 

 whether it could continue to advance in 

 knowledge unless there were intermingled in 

 its governing interests those which belong to 

 the human spirit at its highest, those which 

 seek to acquire command over matter only in 

 order that they may use it for spiritual ends. 

 Our modern 'western' civilisation has enor- 

 mously increased the content and potential- 

 ities of life, and like all increases of resources 

 and power has made it harder to enter the 

 Kingdom of God. Yet, just because the 

 problem set the soul is more complex, because 

 its solution is harder to attain than the simple 

 detachment of Epictetus or an Eastern sage, 

 it yields, if attained, a richer result/' And if, 

 as I think, this is true may not we in Cam- 

 bridge while we endeavour so to advance 

 knowledge as to place the forces of nature 

 more completely at the service of man, strive 



