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Gerard Piel '37 somberly warned in Phi Beta Kappa oration that the United States has "come to the fork in the road" and must choose the path of disarmament, now that expenditure of arms can no longer provide an adequate stimulus to the economy...
...Beta Kappa address at Harvard last June, Gerard Piel said: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to a fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth. In the command of those same means, progress has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
...develop the best probability that we will take the right fork in the road, and keep on it? Of course there is no easy answer, and it will surely take the best efforts of countless men in many fields a long period of time. But we clearly need the humanities to develop the spirits of these men, and the social sciences to develop their understanding of the human problems and their skill in dealing with these problems and with their fellow...
Griswold quoted from the Phi Beta Kappa address given at Commencement by Gerard Piel, the publisher of Scientific American: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to the fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth, [and] has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
...develop the best probability that we will take the right fork in the road, and keep on it?" Griswold asked. "We clearly need the humanities to develop the spirits of men, and the social sciences to develop their understading of human problems and their skill in dealing with these problems. Surely the law, as the most organized and best developed of our means of ordering society has an important place in this grand task...