The science of social adjustment / by Sir Josiah Stamp.

  • Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
Date:
1937
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Credit: The science of social adjustment / by Sir Josiah Stamp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON SOCIETY * Wherever and whenever new seience touches soeietij it creates a disturbance which has hitherto been mostly accepted as inevitable, but is often a high j^cice for progress. The study and control of this impact constitutes the science of social adjustinent. The reactions of society to science have haunted the minds of scientists themselves, as well as philosophers, statesmen, and preachers, with various misgivings for some years past. In his great centenary address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, tJeneral Smuts, answering the question “ What sort of a world picture is science leading to ? ”, declared that one of the great tasks before the human race is to link up science with ethical values and thus remove grave dangers threatening our future. For rapid scientific advance confronts a stationary ethical development, and science itself must find its most difficult task in closing a gap which threatens disruption of our civiliza¬ tion, and must become the most effective drive towards ethical values. In the following year a great engineer spoke as a disillusioned man, who watched the sweep- * I’rosidential Address delivered to the British Association for the Advancement of Seience at Blackpool, 19.3(3, with modilieations and additions, especially from the Hibbert Journal, 1934. 1
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