Science, Liberty and Peace.

Taking as his theme the evils resulting from the misapplication of modern technological progress, Huxley fervently asserts: "Is there any way in which material advantages of progressive technology can be combined not only with security, but also with freedom? My own view, which is essentially that of the Decentralists, is that, so long as the results of pure science are applied for the purpose of mass-producing and mass-distributing industry more expensively elaborate and more highly specialized, there can be nothing but even greater centralization of power in even fewer hands. And the corollary of this centralization of economic and political power is the progressive loss by the masses of their civil liberties, their personal independence and their opportunities for self-government."