The foreign minister of Belgium, Paul van Zeeland, addressing the 1953 international convention in Paris, said: "If the moral and political sciences had kept up with the wisdom of the exact sciences, if man's wisdom had been as great as his knowledge, he would today be in the midst of a Golden Age . . ."
His concluding words, however, placed what-might-have-been in proper perspective and sketched a brighter blueprint for the future. "After all," he said, "isn't it true that in any conflict between opposed ideologies, the victor is,…
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