ABSTRACT
Science today is exerting an ever-increasing influence over the world’s societies, yet at its very heart, it is beset with serious difficulties. One of the most pervasive of these involves its fragmentary approach to nature and reality. In the Introduction it was suggested that, in an age in which science is taken to be the key to increasing progress and the betterment of life, this fragmentary approach can never resolve the deeper problems which now face our world. Many of these problems depend on contexts so broad that they ultimately extend into the whole of nature, society, and the life of each individual. Clearly such problems can never be solved within the limited contexts in which they are normally formulated.
