There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of there I should put first a<br>sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a<br>problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than It<br>used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of<br>various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research<br>in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your<br>mind. You have no time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions<br>may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as modern medicine<br>has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and<br>America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making<br>the food supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the world<br>that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is<br>in everybody's mind at the present time; you study the makeup of the atom from a<br>disinterested desire for knowledge, and by chance place in the hands of a powerful<br>mad man the means of destroying the human race.<br>Therefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more<br>necessary, for every such increase augments our capacity for realizing our purposes,<br>và do đó làm tăng các khả năng của chúng tôi cho cái ác, nếu mục đích của chúng tôi là không khôn ngoan.
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