INTELLIGENCE, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION.

Man is in danger because his control of power has increased so much more rapidly than have the coordinating mechanisms for handling it. ... If man is to utilize successfully the new resources at his disposal, to enhance his civilization rather than destroy it, he must apply the scientific attitude and method to human affairs to a degree hitherto undreamed of; the engines of civilization cannot be run by emotion and guess but require reason and foresight. We scientists and teachers, makers of the minds of men, have an especial obligation to foster this attitude. We must press, with our colleagues in other fields of knowledge, for every possible support and encouragement to create new social inventions, new and more efficient coordinating mechanisms in the epiorganism (or social organism).