After All, For Mankind As A Whole

At Present, There Can Be Little Doubt That The Whole Of Mankind Is In Mortal Danger, Not Because We Are Short Of Scientific And Technological Know-how, But Because We Tend To Use It Destructively, Without Wisdom. More Education Can Help Us Only If Produces More Wisdom.

The Most Striking About Modern Industry Is That It Requires So Much And Accomplishes So Little. Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Ordinary Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

Scientific And Technological "solutions" Which Poison The Environment Or Degrade The Social Structure And Man Himself Are Of No Benefit, No Matter How Brilliantly Conceived Or How Great Their Superficial Attraction.

I Certainly Never Feel Discouraged. I Can't Myself Raise The Winds That Might Blow Us Or This Ship Into A Better World. But I Can At Least Put Up The Sail So That When The Winds Comes, I Can Catch It.

Many Have No Desire To Be In It, Because Their Work Does Not Interest Them, Providing Them With Neither Challenge Nor Satisfaction, And Has No Other Merit In Their Eyes Than That It Leads To A Pay-packet At The End Of The Week.