Machines and Societies 
is not to belittle but to defend the proper dignity of our 
scientific enterprise. 
What it does emphasize is the important part that extra- 
scientific judgments of value must inevitably play in our social 
applications of science. The chief object of society should be 
the fulfilment of the human individual—on this Sir Julian 
Huxley and Jesus Christ are agreed. Any disagreement must 
be on what constitutes fulfilment. Is it to “love God, and our 
neighbour as ourselves’’? Or is it something else? To such 
questions we dare not pretend that science can give an answer; 
yet, as several speakers have pointed out, they are of crucial 
practical importance at the outset of any planning to better the 
lot of our fellows. To allow them to go by default, when we 
rightly devote so much concentrated thought to all other 
phases of the problem, would be to betray our calling. 
My personal hope, if I may express it in conclusion, is that 
in years to come we shall work realistically for a more con- 
structive relationship between scientific and religious thought 
on such problems. We are emerging from a period of confused 
conflict between “‘science” and ‘“‘religion’’, revolving chiefly 
around what I believe were mistaken ideas of the nature and 
scope of both’. It is in a proper working partnership between 
the two—ideally in the same persons—that I see the best hope 
for the future of man. 
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