Without science philosophy is impotent: for how can wisdom grow except on knowle dge fairly won, with

honest observation and research, and recorded and charted b y impartial minds? Without science philosophy becomes decadent and dishonest, i solated from the flow of human growth and falling more and more into the dreary futility of scholasticism. (sidebar: in other words it becoems religion)But with out philosophy science is not mearly helpless it is destructive and devestatin. Science is descriptive: it looks out with eye or telescope, with microcope or sp ectroscope and tells us what it isees; its function is to observe carefully the fact at hand, and to describe it objectively and accurately, reardless of the re sult to man. Here is nitroglycerine or chlorine gas; it is the business of scien ce to analyze them calmly, to tell us just what these compounds or elements are and what they can do. If they can kill whole cities, i they can destroy the fair est shrines of human art, if they can lay waste and brint to nothing an entire c ivilization, with all its treasured loveliness and wisom,==science will tell us how it can be done scientifically, expeditiously, and with the least expense to the tax-payers, should they survive. But whether civilizations out to be destroy ed,--what science tells us that? Whether life is sweetest when engrossed in acqu isition and possessed with possessions or when it is absorbed in creation and co nstruction; whether it is better to seek knowledge and disillusionment or the pa ssing ecstasy of beauty; whether we should try to forego all supernatural sancti ons in our moral life; whether we should view matter fom the standpoint of hte m ind or mind from the standpoint of matter-- what science shall answer us here? H ow shall these ultimate choices of our lives be clarified excet by the light of our whole experience, by that wisdom to which knowledge is mere raw material and in whose total vision all the wealth of sciences find lace and order and a gudi ng significance? Science is the analytical description of parts, philosophy is t he synthetic interpretation of the whole, or the interpretation of a part in ter ms of its place and value for the whole. Science is a committee of ways and mean s, philosophy is a committee on resolutions and program; facts and instrumentali ties have worth and meaning only in relation to desire. that the desires themsel ves should be consistent, that they should become ordered parts of a harmonious personality, an integrated life, that too is the task of philosophy, and one of its highest goals.