Maurice Goldsmith Alan Mackay Bernal (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Printing Thus. 236 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black. Stated First Edition, But Actually First American Edition. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $6.00. Reason Demands That Science Be Used To Understand And Improve Society And In Particular Its Institutions And Government; But The Demand Is Unreasonable, As Science Has Boundless Universal Audience And Participation And Review And Analysis And Criticism Subject To Explicit Standards, Whereas Society Does Not- Its Standards Are Vaguely Philosophical But Essentially Clan-Specific And Religious. To The Everlasting Surprise Of Society, Its Standards Are Occasionally Revised By Popular Sentiment When Experience, Including Some Consideration Of Science, Is Overwhelmingly Indicative Of Its Failings. The Academicians Here Assert Some Scientific Expertise In General, Which Is Not The Way Scientific Expertise Works In Social Concerns.