Control of Man Called Problem

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 3

Control of Man Called Problem

TORONTO—One of the main problems confronting the world to-day is the inability to agree on the appropriate methods for the control of man himself, and thus, to assure wise exercise 'of his increasing authority over the material universe, said Dr. Lewis Douglas, Principal of AlcGill University at the annual dinner here of the AlcGill Society of Ontario. The social sciences must be more closely related to the natural sciences and the significance of one to the other more fully understood, [he said. He deplored the present situation in which the social sciences have become so divided that they are in many cases completely unrelated. Dr. Douglas declared that there must be a revived faith in opportunity, faith in the prevalence of a fulfillable promise of distinction, a belief that ability has a destiny to attain, a level far above the mean to which it may rise. He suggested more scholarships as one of the methods by which the high standard of university excellence might be encouraged and maintained. If forces are threatening the demo cratic institutions, he believed that the university could play its part among corrective influences by providing, among other things, intellectual freedom and excellence in its disciplines, and by inspiring an appreciation of the eternal unity and harmony, of knowledge. It is necessary also to develop a public realization of the responsibilities of citizenship, and a co-related knowledge of all the broad conception of democracy.