Ask With Urgency And Passion.

No Country Can Allow Its Safety To Be Wholly Dependent On Faithful Observance By Other States Of Rules To Which They Are Obliged.

But Science Is The Great Instrument Of Social Change, All The Greater Because Its Object Is Not Change But Knowledge, And Its Silent Appropriation Of This Dominant Function, Amid The Din Of Political And Religious Strife, Is The Most Vital Of All The Revolutions Which Have Marked The Development Of Modern Civilisation.

Man, So Far As Natural Science By Itself Is Able To Teach Us, Is No Longer The Final Cause Of The Universe, The Heaven-descended Heir Of All The Ages. His Very Existence Is An Accident, His Story A Brief And Transitory Episode In The Life Of One Of The Meanest Of The Planets.

Science Preceded The Theory Of Science, And Is Independent Of It. Science Preceded Naturalism, And Will Survive It.

Society, Dead Or Alive, Can Have No Charm Without Intimacy And No Intimacy Without An Interest In Trifles.