ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns a critical evaluation of structural and moral changes. How far do the changes which we are discussing affect the ultimate stability and harmony of society and how far do they contribute to a system of social justice or a system allowing creative freedom to the human individual? This means that the author see difficulty in trying to isolate precisely what moral changes are produced by scientific and technological advance. Religion is often appealed to as the only source of a morality which can measure up to the magnitude of modem technological advance. The modem colonial system, held together by world markets, rests essentially on the scientific knowledge and the technical achievements of the Western industrial revolution. The humanitarianism of the nineteenth century, which was in itself a reaction from the asperities of the industrial revolution, was responsible for a vast improvement in the social conditions of the backward peoples.
