ABSTRACT
Out of the union of science with government there is to issue a providential state, possessed of all knowledge and of the power to enforce it. Only the scientists seemed to know what they were doing. Only governments seemed to have the power to act. In government there was power. By their union an indispensable providence was to be created and the future of human society contrived and directed. The observations have their place in the argument because they are necessary to an understanding of that great schism in the human outlook which has shaken the world. The essential difference between the faith that our generation has embraced and the faith that it has forsaken is to be found in what it thinks some men can do to manage the destiny of other men.
