Western civilization has acquired by far the greatest measure of skill in controlling the course of events by organized intelligence.  Yet this appears to have intensified rather than abated our anxiety.  For to the extent that we have analyzed the natural world and the human world more thoroughly, to that extent it appears to us to be more complicated.  The scope of our detailed information about the world is so vast that every individual, every responsible source of action, finds it too great to master - without depending upon the collaboration of other who are, however beyond his control.  Collaborations requires faith, but faith is an instinctual attitude; speaking quite strictly, it is not intelligent to trust what you have not analyzed.

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