ABSTRACT
All around us we see the examples of applied physical science. The electrical and chemical industries are purely scientific in origin, the motor and aeroplane industries hardly less so. The physical sciences have been privileged at the expense of the other sciences. The expenditure on them is something like twice or three times that spent on all the other sciences put together, so that, both in the final results and the means of obtaining them, it would seem that whatever is wrong with science applies least of all to the physical sciences. But the influence of physical science is seen even more clearly in unproductive features of modern civilization; in unemployment, in unused productive power, in war preparations. Present application of science produces these results as certainly as it produces the more obvious benefits.
