| Today
supersonic jets have made it possible for one to leave New York at 3:00 p. m. and
arrive in Seattle at 1:30 p. m. the same day. It will not be long before Wednesday's
airmail from one country will be received on Tuesday of the same week in another country.
The world of fantasy is here and now! Human intelligence appears to be limitless!
Technological progress in the twentieth century, especially in the two or three most
recent decades, has been spectacular. Yet all
progress has been shown in perfecting things rather than on the improvement of man. In
fact, the astonishing material progress in the modern world has been matched in direct
proportion by the rising rates of crime, divorce, delinquency, gambling, alcoho- lism,
sexual wantonness, accidental death and moral indifference. |
