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Show The World Needs Most a New Understanding of the Knowledge at Hand By DR. ARTHUR D. LITTLE, Address to Franklin Institute. The "fifth estate" is that small company upon whose creative effort the world depends for the advancement of science. Our countrymen may well consider whether they prefer participation in government by the fifth estate for the benefit of all, or control of government by labor unions in the interests of labor. Could the springs of human conduct and the affairs of peoples now be regulated only as wisely as we know how, there would be work and leisure and decent living for all. The criminal, the defective, the feebleminded would be breeded out, and sane minds and sound bodies breeded in. The loss and suffering from preventable diseases or accident would not be tolerated, planning would replace laissez-faire development, production and distribution would attain the levels of efficiency altogether new, and many injustices now existent in human relations would well-nigh disappear. With the reaction of a freed intelligence on politics, religion and morals we might hope for a broader tolerance, a better mutual understanding. under-standing. The world needs most a new tolerance, a new understanding and appreciation of the knowledge now at hand. For these it can look nowhere with such confidence as to the members of the filth estate. |