The Human Perspective

Politicians and leader-writers are again reminding us, in words that Adam doubtless used to Eve when they stumbled out of Paradise, that "Mankind is now at the Crossroads." As each generation has received the old warning, the complexity of the situation has progressively increased. Those to whom we now look for guidance—the social psychologist and the professional philosopher—seem generally agreed that a solution can best be reached by simply ignoring the more perplexing factors that combine to complicate the problem. In this, I venture to think, they are gravely mistaken.