ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a scientific study of matters would proceed. Its first step would be to try to decide on the aims of society; its next to define the nature of our existing difficulties, not only material but also intellectual. Only then could it begin to make a rational plan of how to unravel the knots into which we have tied our lives. There is not much basis there for implementing science's contribution to political life. The most effective way of convincing people of the value and usefulness of science will be the performance by scientists of a few useful and convincing pieces of analysis of social affairs. Within some fields, scientists have already shown that their particular methods of handling practical problems can become an important addition to the older techniques. One of the most far-reaching characteristics of the scientific approach to a practical problem is an insistence on deciding exactly what one is trying to do.
