Sound and Symbol

Extract

Like the rest of us, scientists, theologians, and metaphysicians have grown worried about the political affairs of the world, and have set their wits to work to find ways of combating dangers abroad and at home. Some of them organized a Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, and met in the fall of 1940 to hear a number of papers about themselves and their work. They met in the hope of finding a common basis for endeavor, so that they might co-operate in maintaining that way of life which we commonly call ‘democracy’.