Abstract

Remaking Mankind

The article presents information on the book "Man the Unknown," by Alexis Carrel. Is there help in biological science for the difficulties of mankind? This is the question dealt with by the distinguished biologist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The present predicament of man, he holds, results from the fact that "the sciences of inert matter have made immense progress while those of living things remain in a rudimentary state." In consequence there has been produced an environment has created. Man has been incapable of organizing this world for himself, because he did not possess a practical knowledge of his own nature. Thus the enormous advance gained by the sciences of inanimate matter over those of living things is one of the greatest catastrophes ever suffered by humanity.