Influence of science

The happy unity of instinct is gone from us, and we flounder in a sea of reasoning and doubt; in the midst of unprecedented knowledge and power we are uncertain of our purposes, our values and our goals. The balance of mind which once came of a warm religious faith is gone; science has taken from us the supernatural basis of our morality, and all the world seems consumed in a disorderly individualism that reflects the chaotic fragmentation of our character.