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...define the moral problem and to speculate on a solution was the purpose of M.I.T.'s panel on "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit." Gentle Jacques Maritain, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, was not confused about his convictions on the subject. Twentieth Century Man, he said, is becoming "unable to believe anything but facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing...
...like feudal castles, dot the 20th Century's landscape. They are created by the simple fact that man can no longer alone cope with what Churchill calls the 20th Century's tides and tornadoes. What happens to man in this situation was the problem discussed by the panel on "The Role of the Individual in a World of Institutions...
...M.I.T.'s Rockwell Cage, a huge, airy gym standing apart from the columned halls where man's spirit was under investigation, the scientists discussed man's material condition. In the panel on "the Problem of World Production," Fairfield (Our Plundered Planet) Osborn once more raised his familiar Malthusian bogy of ever-shrinking resources, ever-increasing population...
...seem easy, it is enormously difficult to the larger part of the world. Throughout Asia, Africa and large parts of Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
Faith in man's ability to supply his needs through science--in spite of the world's depleting natural resources and increasing population--was expressed by a panel manned by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frank W. Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, Fairfield Osborne, president of the Conservation Foundation, Robert P. Russell, director of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Sir Henry Tizard, British production expert...