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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    to be as vital elements in real knowledge as the interac¬ tion of chemical elements, and the new directions and kinds of physical force. In a new sense “ the proper study of mankind is man Sir Kichard Gregory says: The impacts of science with society are now so numerous that scientific studies in the realm of social biology are even more necessary for civilized life than researches in the physical sciences.^ And Professor Hogben says : We shall not harmonize the public needs of a progressive society with the private needs of human nature until we have a science of human nature.^ Some will say, without hesitation, that these diffi¬ culties are inherent in an individualistic society and cannot be solved save by a socialized or planned State, either communized or dictated, but totalitarian. Others will reply that even if these weaknesses of the present system are made good in a substituted one, we shall merely change over to new evils, for the strong points of the present system will be the weak points in the new. So much ought to be admitted by those who hold this view, or would test it out still longer : that it is for them to toil scientifically to justify the continuance of the principles of individual¬ istic society by such regulation and knowledge as will purge it of its patent defects—its ‘ plenty ’ produced and unused in the midst of poverty, its potentiality unexplored—and such as will conserve those human qualities that have made our present civilization. * R. A. (ircsory, Proc. of Poi/al Inst., May 193(5. ^ Prof. Hogben, lielreat from Reason, p. 22.
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