THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 452 ~ scientific truths and discoveries should cease to be the mere instruments of greed. The supreme consideration is man.”5 We can sum up his ideas in these words: the masses constitute the actual environment which is necessary for the development programmes to be implemented. The necessary tools of progress— investment and technical expertise, etc.—cannot function effectively in a political and cultural vacuum. Modern thinkers have found no solution to the problems of how this vacuum is to be filled and how an environment is to be built up in which the public and government officials can work together to build society. Personal views clash with social concepts, and if God is left out of the picture, all attempts at human progress are doomed to failure, because they fall a prey to self-engendered contradictions. On a social level, the aim of the people is to build a peaceful, prosperous community, but at the same time they are unable to suppress the desire to seek material prosperity on a purely individual basis. Now if everyone is so