Science, Technology and the Christian (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Science, Technology and the Christian A word of explanation is needed for this little book. Science and Technology are both vast subjects, whose complete description world require a much larger account than I can give. I cannot help remembering that the immense Oxford History of Technology alone ran to five volumes of about 1000 pages each. The relation of all this to the Christian faith that I hold is a complex one that touches nearly all of the ordinary activities of my life, and in addition I can lay no claim to being a social scientist. The excuse for writing this book is that I believe it to be exceedingly important in any democracy that ordinary people should know enough about the factors which affect and influence their lives as will enable them to recognize the problems which have to be solved. It is no good recognizing these problems too late to be able to deal with them properly. Yet this is precisely what happened in the first industrial revolution. There would not otherwise have been such appalling standards of nome building nor such unsatisfactory working conditions for a large part of our population. We suffer the reward for our former lack of imagination in the existence of ugly, characterless, unhealthy manufacturing towns; and in a serious debasement of the value which we attach to ordinary honest work. It would indeed be tragic if the moral of those earlier failures were not heeded now, as we move into a new industrial revolution. Someone must speak, in words which can be easily understood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.