Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transaction of the Congregational Historical Society, Vol. 20: 1965-1970
I cannot think of any movements which have done more to make the modern world than the growth of the natural sciences and the social sciences. It was left for the twentieth century to add the scientific study of man's inner nature, and complete the triumvirate of Darwin, Marx and Freud, which has created the modern world View.
The natural and social sciences are parallel movements. Both aim to build on experience, to use a method of reasoning of unquestionable validity, to describe as completely as possible man's environment, and, through the power conferred by knowledge, to transform that environment. Both raise the fundamental question of man's own status in relation to that environment. The Psalmist's question What is man insistently demands an answer. This is the perennially topical question. The coming of age of man is a phrase which describes the whole modern epoch from the Renaissance to the present day. In looking at the thought of Dale we are examining how a man of great spiritual and considerable intellectual power reacted to this discussion in his own day.
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