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Show 122 Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters with materials with which to build a new world. To be success ful in this, the peoples of the world must work together in build ing it. We lost the peace after the first World War because' nations failed to cooperate. National selfishness and fear brought about ba'rriers and misunderstandings which ended in a race of arms and conflicts. Youth won World War I, but old men made the peace in the image of the economic and political world they knew. It looks like peace following World War II may be lost because old men are again playing power politics. What can we do about it? One answer, I believe, is that we must have more science, not less science, hence more education in every nation on the globe. The scientist knows that to make the masses more scientific, there must be a continuous struggle against ignorance and that as 'we .banish ignorance of all kinds, human relation ships are improved. The biological scientist knows that nature and nurture must be dealt with in a changing and species. Is it not possible for the scientist to have a improving hand in the bending of the twigs of the human forest of the future? "As a twig is bent so groweth the tree." Dr. Elbert D. Thomas has recently pointed out that Thomas Jefferson maintained "that democracy is based on the common man. It will work or it will not work in theory, depending on what sort of being this com mon man is. On one's concept of the nature of the common man, of the kind of being with whom we have to deal, must rest any comprehensive philosophy of government." Mr. Brooks Atkin son has said, "If the democratic way of life were not based on a moral concept of human relations, it would not be worthy of preserving. If freedom were not creative, the vital power of the present and future, it- would not be worth the staggering price »re must pay to retain it. To look on democracy simply as a form of government is to underestimate the fullness of life it nourishes. It is part of the moral wisdom of the ages-men liv ing with mutual respect and a common I suggest that destiny." we must develop an adequate philosophy of education to deal with this new situation. Universal education must be the watch word of the new era. Education properly conceived will turn loose the initiative and inventive powers of millions of minds that are now wasting in a non productive condition. The scientific de velopment of' the past century marks only a beginning for the far ... ... ... ... ... ... ... reaching contributions to chemistry, physics, health, medicine, genetics, human ecology and philosophy. The youthful man ... power of the democracies should use these tools in shaping a conducive environment for the realization of better human more relationships. Selfishness which .supports materialistic imperial ism and capitalistic intrigue must be supplanted by free national and international trade, development and confidence. The earth ... |
