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S: BOOK - |, , buy, , 52 a THE GLITTERING, , » Ten adeplre, op Ac, ide apa,, davttdl, Aan C278, THE SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW, , Dovtcd. bem qenaleig Kealukinanry beteget, , J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), , featar, , er apreats, ated 4 I . F, , 4) people Ge rary Heyy,, mur al / edtal aad:, , Aanpa Ow, , any @, , ”, , 3., , , , The Author :— Professor John Burdon Sanderson, lee and London Universities upto, , gist and writer. In protest, , gainst Egypt, he migrated, , an Nationality. In India, Prof,, , nm Statistical Institute, Calcutta, , In 1962, he became the head, , Haldane taught i, 1957. He is a, against the Bi, to India, Haldane te, , , , SCIENCE AFFECTS the average man and woman in two, ways already. He or she benefits by its application, driving in, a motor car or omnibus instead or a horse-drawn vehicle,, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than, by a priest or a witch and being killed with an automatic, pistol or a shell in place of dagger or a battleaxe. It also, affects his or her opinions. Almost everyone believes that the, earth is round, and the heavens nearly empty, instead fr, , fal artcestry dnd, , a, , And we are beginning to believe in our aniniat’S, , possibility of vast improvements in human nature by biological, methods (MCE nh te ap ot ecg: inka 7 ey, <_ But science can do something far bigger for the human, mind than the substituti fone, set of beliefs for another,, syosliot he satan of ade ee. alee a opinions,, f It can gradually spread among humanity as a whole, The point, of view that prevails among research workers aéat’ has enable 4, a few thousand men and a few dozen WOME, Lor ereate the, science on which modem civilization reg ae if We are to, control our own and one another’s actions,as we are learning, , fy Soe etic Ovetiong, , All, , Mod se,, , 2) Wsery & Surrey, bWrituay ob, , Wkly ts bare, , to_control €, the scientific poi, , foolish to think, that whe 9, ! lonized indy, Ouseless, when appt 2 e, i fortunately, :, ‘ nea, , Enitig the door t erabl prophets, advertising their own pet Heoties in a, Rae Continually telling us through their mouths, , ed unless we give up smoki, c trol, and so forth. Now it is, , any scientific theory, / the scientific stan, , the characteristics of the standpoint ? In the first p t, attempts to b fil a eae Tsp, impartial. And it carries, impartiality a_greal deal er ia the legal point of, view. A good judge will try to be imparti en Mr. John, aus ae Mr. Chang Singh. A good scientist will be impartial, , tween My,Smith, a tapeworm, and the solar system., lee bin him his natural repufGion of the tape-worm,, would lead him to throw it Way instead of, studying i, , ns) ten mn =, , carefully as a statue or a ‘Symphony, rats awe for the s, system, which led his predecessors either to worshi, constituents_or at least to, regard them as inscrutable seryants, , of the Alnfighty, too eXalted for human comprehengiony 5, ase., , id medicine will Sronue, , ithe nation oF the hn uman, , the growing > ook of ¢, , sociology as, , aH gah © img : :, Such an pitti le, leads the scientist to a curious mixture, of pride and humility, ‘these ar, system tums out to be a group, of bodies rat I il in comparison with many of their, neighbours, and err Parents CONG is eve des :, and easily iptelligible laws, Me he self is a father al, , TT . cm Demet, member of the same order as the monkeys, Ny le wanes tyre, at the merey ofa number of chemical NS * 2 = ody, yo : oe :, which he canfunderstand little and Contr ., , (eIn so far as it places all phenomena on oar, emotional level, the scientific point of view, , 4 Ee ut it differs profoundly f a, Peat ed to the Almighty in mn oan?, a eae, , , , sah of vee