"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in
danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it. We have too many men of science ; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. This is our twen- tieth-century's claim to distinction and to progress."
Something like this has been said before, perhaps rather often before, but not always with the same authority. For the speaker was General Omar Bradley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army
and the foremost soldier in the United States since the retirement of General Eisenhower. I have no doubt Lord Montgomery would endorse every word of it. But then what ? Where is the answer, where the way out ? General Bradley says democracy. Others might say Christianity. The problem then is how to make totali-
tarians democrats or Chriatians. How ?
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