The Recognition Of The Art That Informs

The Recognition Of The Art That Informs All Pure Science Need Not Mean The Abandonment For It Of All Present Art, Rather It Will Mean The Completion Of The Transformation Of Art That Has Already Begun.

One Of The Questions On Which Clarity Of Thinking Is Now Most Necessary Is That Of The Relation Between The Methods Of Science And Of Marxist Philosophy. Although Much Has Already Been Written On The Subject, Yet There Is Still An Enormous Amount Of Confusion And Contradictory Statement.

Hunger And Sex Still Dominate The Primitive Mammalian Side Of Human Existence, But At The Present Time It Looks As If Humanity Were Within Sight Of Their Satisfaction. Permanent Plenty, No Longer A Utopian Dream, Awaits The Arrival Of Permanent Peace.

But If Capitalism Had Built Up Science As A Productive Force, The Very Character Of The New Mode Of Production Was Serving To Make Capitalism Itself Unnecessary.

Pauling Was Shocked By The Freedom With Which The X-ray Crystallographers Of The Time, Including Particularly Astbury, Played With The Intimate Chemical Structure Of Their Models. They Seemed To Think That If The Atoms Were Arranged In The Right Order And About The Right Distance Apart, That Was All That Mattered, That No Further Restrictions Need To Be Put On Them.