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The Hope of Progress (Hardcover)
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The Hope of Progress (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1972, The Hope of Progress presents collection
of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas
and the impact of science on society. The principle piece in this
volume is the author's 1969 presidential address to the British
Association 'On The Effecting of All Things Possible', an argument
for believing in the ability of science to solve the problems it
has itself created, and which too many of us believe insoluble. It
contains author's Romanes Lecture on 'Science and Literature' and a
well known critique of J.D. Watson's notorious account of the
discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, The Double Helix.
Other chapters discuss the possibility of the control and
domination by science of the body and mind of Man- though the
author concludes in 'The Genetic Improvement of Man' : 'I think
that, in the main, for many centuries to come, we shall have to put
up with human beings as they are at present constituted'. This book
will be useful for scholars and researchers of history of science,
philosophy of science, natural science, and philosophy in general.
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