assume entire intelligibility. But the novelties of automation, 
creating workless and propertyless communities, envelop us in 
new uncertainties.

     A most luminous passage of A. N. Whitehead’s classic 
Science and the Modern World  (p. 141) is one that was 
discussed previously in another connection.

          The greatest invention of the nineteenth century 
     was the invention of the method of invention. A new 
     method entered into life. In order to understand our 
     epoch, we can neglect all the details of change, such as 
     railways, telegraphs, radios, spinning machines, synthetic 
     dyes. We must concentrate on the method in itself; that 
     is the real novelty, which has broken up the foundations 
     of the old civilization. The prophecy of Francis Bacon has