What has gone wrong with the world? In the throes of the Great War, many
discovered for the first time that they were living in a scientific
civilisation, and even scientific men themselves realised the difference
between the leaven of theory and its practical aspect in a world boiling
in ferment. Science then almost emerged from its esoteric seclusion to
become a cult - at least, something worth cultivating, for professional
ends. So indispensible in wartime, it seemed curiously insignificant
among the public services in time of peace. Fortunately for science the
danger passed. There are scientific professions, many of them, but
science is not a profession. It is a quest. What has gone wrong in the
world? Let us follow the quest.
America, almost alone among the nations now, has any freedom of choice
of its rulers and the world looks to her as its last hope of destroying
what has become easily the most powerful tyranny and the most universal
conspiracy against the economic freedom of individuals and the autonomy
of nations the world has yet known.
The state of Europe at the present time, and of its once proud nations
reduced severally to internal chaos and many to despair, is eloquent of
the rule of the banker. Here, what is dangerous to the banker is
considered altogether too dangerous for the nation to be allowed even to
discuss, and the public are most carefully and elaborately shielded from
any real knowledge of the preposterous humbug which it was one of the
objects of this book to elucidate.
