SCIENCE AND LIFE.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 6, 30 September 1937, Page 4

SCIENCE AND LIFE.

Tliere is a notion afoot that, in the last analysis, science is largely responsible for the extent and persistence of much of the strain of modern life," says Lord Horder, the eminent physician. "I want to say at once that I regard this unloading upon scienoe as a mere pusillanimity. I hold the view that it is not too much science but too little science that has helped to get us into this trouble. Or rather, should I say, not enough interest in science and not enough direction given to science. "What interest does the average individual really take in science and to what exent is he prepared to encourage it? The answer is, almost nil. Which is odd when we reflect that he recognises quite fully — as how can he fail to do? — that at the present time both politics and economics, and some wonld add even religion, regarded as systems existing for human betterment, seem to have failed him, and science alone is not bankrupt. Science has, indeed, loaded man with - benefits, but he has shown an indifference to them, or a earelessness and a prodigality in his use of themf which is quite pathetic,'* >