Dangerous Thoughts
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By NORTON
THIS volume consists of lectures and addresses on various subjects viewed from the standpoint of ‘scientific humanism.’ The author’s discourse is semipopular, superficial, and replete with the taking cleverness of juvenile dogmatism. Why he should regard his thoughts as dangerous is not clear, for to most of us they must seem familiar and domestic creatures; we have often seen their like. For example, when all comes to all, scientific humanism’s practical proposals for saving society turn out to be nothing but our harmless old friend Technocracy togged out in a white tie and tails. The book’s best service, probably, is to remind us that while latter-day science breeds no end of capable investigators, well-trained reporters, and facile expositors, the great men of science are as few as ever they were.