Science and Human Life

Abstract

DISCUSSIONS centring round the application of scientific knowledge to the solution of social problems result too often in generalisations which have no regard to the very different positions in which the physical, biological, and social sciences find themselves to-day. It is a commonplace to say that if science is to be of use, research must be entirely unhampered. Generally speaking, there is nowadays freedom of research in all branches of science, though it can scarcely be supposed that, in countries such as Russia, social scientists are wholly free to investigate the institution of private property and the system of private enterprise.