Since It Is Seldom Clear Whether Intellectual

When Plugged In, The Least Elaborate Computer Can Be Relied On To Work To The Fullest Extent Of Its Capacity. The Greatest Mind Cannot Be Relied On For The Simplest Thing; Its Variability Is Its Superiority.

A Culture May Be Conceived As A Network Of Beliefs And Purposes In Which Any String In The Net Pulls And Is Pulled By The Others,thus Perpetually Changing The Configuration Of The Whole. If The Cultural Element Called Morals Takes On A New Shape, We Must Ask What Other Strings Have Pulled It Out Of Line. It Cannot Be One Solitary String, Nor Even The Strings Nearby, For The Network Is Three-dimensional At Least.

It Is Not Clear To Anyone, Least Of All The Practitioners, How Science And Technology In Their Headlong Course Do Or Should Influence Ethics And Law, Education And Government, Art And Social Philosophy, Religion And The Life Of The Affections. Yet Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

We Are Accustomed To The Artist Scoundrel Or Specialist In Vice, And Unaccustomed To The Creator In Whom Passion And Reason And Moral Integrity Hold In Balance. But Greatness Of Intellect And Feeling, Or Soul And Conduct - Magnanimity, In Short - Does Occur; It Is Not A Myth For Boy Scouts, And Its Reality Is Important, If Only To Give Us The True Range Of The Term "human," Which We So Regularly Define By Its Lower Reaches.

In Ordinary Speech The Words Perception And Sensation Tend To Be Used Interchangeably, But The Psychologist Distinguishes. Sensations Are The Items Of Consciousness--a Color, A Weight, A Texture--that We Tend To Think Of As Simple And Single. Perceptions Are Complex Affairs That Embrace Sensation Together With Other, Associated Or Revived Contents Of The Mind, Including Emotions.