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success which is necessary for the real amelioration of 
things, then it must engage the attention of every 
country that can influence the issue. 
With Man’s reliance upon his intelligence, it is not 
altogether impossible that he has lost some measure of 
—if he ever had them—his intuitional powers. The 
so-called instincts, which to some extent appear to 
guide animals, are of little service to him, although 
the researches of Boirac, Ochorowicz, Osty and others 
seem to show that Man has what—for the want of a 
better term—may be called praternatural powers. 
Is his insight really of this nature? ‘There is abroad a 
sense of unrest, as if we were in the thrall of an unseen 
trouble. Is this verily some apperception of the fact, 
which we have here tried to establish by means of 
appropriate statistics? One of course can hardly say. 
But one can say, quite positively, that the rational 
evidence is unmistakable; the world cannot escape the 
issues, which its rate of increase is rapidly developing. 
May not this be the Shadow of the World’s Future, 
which is mysteriously influencing its thought? 
With a normal perspective, the picture of Nature’s 
activities is of profound intellectual interest. But 
those activities are by no means always a comfort to 
human beings. Even the mere shaking of the earth’s 
crust may be appalling to the earth’s peoples. In the 
1927 Norman Lockyer Lecture, Dean Inge, speaking 
on Science and Ethics in relation thereto, pointed out 
that the time has gone by when Man could regard 
the world as in being for his benefit alone, and one may 
add, or even primarily for his benefit. At the present 
time Man has the upper hand, and must exploit his 
opportunity in the best way possible. Is he, how- 
ever, to be an uncontrolled animal, whose instinctive 
reactions are to carry him on to his doom? Or is he 
to be relieved by his vision of the world’s possibilities, 
and by his adapting himself to its inescapable issues? 
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