ABSTRACT
Poetry and the arts, in their tentative approaches to science before the war, were wooing a frigid adolescent. Even if a successful man of affairs rises above the struggle and can indulge his fancy, his world is the world of production and manufacture, the sciences he is likely to be interested in are the technical ones, chemistry and physics and their newer offshoots. In spite of this failure to realise that the scientific attitude has social implications, and in spite of the lack of development of the sciences which should deal with man's social behaviour, science has been a very potent cultural force. The scientific world has often been, in its public and explicit expressions of opinion, unwilling to admit that its attitude has any relevance to social life, and it has hardly ever even dared to suggest that it has an important contribution to make.
