Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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civilization, the science of man has become the
most necessary of all sciences (pp. 38-39).
What is the way to acquire this science?
We learn each year that tremendous progress has
been made in eugenics, statistics, ethics, biology,
chemistry, anatomy, physiology, medicine, hygiene,
sociology, economics and so on. But for all practical
purposes, their results are not very important. This
may seem very surprising. Indeed, it is, and this is
because, as Carrel puts it: “These sciences will be
utilizable only if, instead of being buried in
libraries, they animate our intelligence.”
No one single individual has mastery over all these
sciences. It is highly desirable that certain
individuals should rise to this task, and, having
acquired a profound knowledge of all the subjects,
should utilize the science scattered in books in a
unified and integrated manner. Dr. Carrel goes on
to say:
But is it possible for a single brain to
assimilate such a gigantic amount of
knowledge? Can any individual master
