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lost and will be externiated in near future. It is said that earth's carbon is decreasing. More cancer death are feared from thining ozone layer. It is feared that USA may require more asylums than hospitals. New York fully depends upon sea winds for oxygen. The calamity is octopus and as Sall Tung says, The Planet is already burning. An annual survey of more than 20000 children, aged 11 to 15, carried out by Exeter University shows that drug taking amongst this age group has doubled over the few years (Faire Hynes - The Times, London). Bernard Leven asks 'Have we dehumanised ourselves.' He gives numerous instances of mindless brutality against inoffensive persons in New York and London and deplores the callous deterioration of man and his environs. Look at the filth our cities have become? I will not stretch this sordid story any further. It suffices to point out the malady, mankind is suffering now. Here Dewey puts it 'We should now endeavour the Quest for certainty. Problem of restoring faith and conviction, integration and cooperation between man's beliefs about the world, and human ethos, values and purposes. To overcome alienation, time has come, when values must be identified with moral fulfilment, creative process, in which Law of Entropy is reversed and life develops new forms, manifests new capacities. Interest is to bread harmony and goodwill to unite the broken chord. Moral failure is a failure to exercise rational self. We must get rid of this dysnomia and thraldom. Man now imperatively needs a new technology for the inner growth.
It augurs well to realise that scientists have now realised that there is no conflict between science and religion, between mind and matter and between body and soul. A few quotes will testify to this. It is gratifying to note that man is not only a mere 'homo sapiens' but also a 'homo faber', that the universe is not a large computer and that microcome and macrocosm have the commonness (The Theory of Everything proves this). Einstein says that religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame. Arthur Hill observes that religion and science are not in conflict and are not opposite systems. Science has now reached the dead end of its journey. Scientific enquiries cannot justify the Summum Bonnum of life. A.S. Edington holds the view that beneath the matter a conscious energy is covertly there. Albert Einstein also holds the same view and believes in super power. James Jeans observes that modern science is getting closer to human consciousness. JBS Halden goes further and says that cosmic energy controls our pattern of behaviour. Dr. Gal believes in Karma theory and life hereinafter. To sum up, I refer to the book 'The Great Design'in which fourteen scientists have unanimously concluded that the universe is not a machine without consciousness. There is a cosmic
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