CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION 



The Genesis of Natural Science The Races of Europe 

 Creation and Culture Mysticism and Dogma. 



THE vast and imposing structure of modern science 



is one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind. 



. The broad yet intimate knowledge of 



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of Natural the phenomena of Nature now available 



Science. gi ves no t only a marvellous control over 



natural resources, but permits an insight into the 



workings of natural processes far beyond the dreams 



of former ages. 



Within the last century, physical science has 

 brought under its sway mechanical powers which make 

 the tools of the past five thousand years seem like 

 the playthings of children. Vistas have been opened 

 into the innermost recesses of the structure of matter 

 vistas down which the eye of man is powerless to 

 follow the flight of his mind. 



Biology has constructed consistent theories of the 

 mechanism of living organisms. It has revealed 

 hosts of microscopic beings, endless in number and 

 variety, beings pregnant with good or evil for the 

 human race ; while the study of heredity, expressed 

 in the new science of genetics, has arisen to light the 



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