ABSTRACT
This chapter examines briefly the Marxist claims, and those of Professor Bernal in particular, for a radical reconsideration and re-adjustment of the duties of science and the assurances accompanying these claims, that they not impairs the vital rights of science. The methods of science also ensure that every new addition to knowledge should enlarge the organism of ideas to which it accedes. Science consists of autonomous branches, ruled by their several systems of ideas; each of these are continuously producing new minor propositions suitable for scientific verification. By these verifications they are being steadily strengthened and revised, in order to approximate more and more closely to truth. The position of science in society is thus seen to be merely a special feature of the position of thought in society. Society cultivates science as an organism of ideas which powerfully attracts the minds of intelligent people.
