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THE need for restoring the balance between man‘s material and his spiritual advance has been a recurring theme in scientific discussion, and in the writings of such men as Louis Mumford and K. Mannheim, since the memorable presidential address given by General Smuts at the centenary meeting of the British Association. Papers contributed by Prof. B. Dobree, and by Dr. D. M. Emmet, Prof. T. W. Hanson and S. Hird at two discussion groups on "Science, the Universities and the Modern Crisis" arranged by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1944–45 are specific examples of this trend of thought. More recently, Sir Henry Tizard struck the same note as a minor theme in his own presidential address at Brighton, and Lord Samuel‘s evening discourse on "Science and Philosophy"called imperatively to science to join philosophy and religion in promoting a synthesis which would be adequate to redeem this age from past calamities and rescue it from present dangers.
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Material and Ethical Progress. Nature 162, 793–795 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162793a0
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