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the scientific temper on man by burland Russell​

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Answered by Kannan0017
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The Effect of the Scientific Temper on Man

-Bertrand Russell

Summary:

Seventeenth century men had got victory over their predecessors due to scientific inventions. They achieved more advantages with technical advances. Observations were haphazard before that time. The old traditions were accepted as facts by the people without any evidence. There were no proved scientific facts; rather people believed that they have been bounded by natural rules. As a result, they believed that the heavenly bodies were supposed to go in round complications as they had been guided by aesthetic taste. They believed that earthquakes and disasters happened due to sin. In contrast refreshing rain was considered as reward of virtue. Comets foretold the death of princes. In this way, they believed on aesthetic belief rather than proven facts.

Later on, the scientific mind had changed the point of view of humans. They believed on careful investigations of facts forgetting aesthetic beliefs. The ideas seem simple today but it would be a great revolution at that time. As a corollary, Kepler was killed as he claimed that the planets moved in ellipses, not in circles. Thus people believed on the super power of nature. They believed that the action of nature was superior that the wish or fear of humans.

The modern world has realized the fact of the past and developed highly. However, the so-called scholars of the Western culture are totally ignorant of the fact. The people who believed on new scientific knowledge were known as narrow and uncouth specialists.

The scientific technique had influenced the people rather than pure science. As a result the industrial revolution had been developed in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Clyde. At first people didn’t believe on it until it helped to defeat Napoleon. The explosive power was so powerful which spread to Russia first, then to Asia. Whether it is boon or disaster, it is scientific fact afterall which is undergoing these days

Answered by ramesh87901
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The seventeenth century men who invented the modern scientific method are credited with inventing a new mathematical technique and also known for abandoning the view that nature conformed to human tastes and hopes and fears. The belief was that pestilence and earthquakes were sent to punish sin as rains to reward virtue. The scientific temper abandoned this point of view. To find out how nature works, we must be guided only by careful investigation of facts. This scientific temper introduces men to the fact that Nature does what it does, nor what we should wish, nor what we should fear. From this scientific attitude, the modern world has developed. The embodiments of the western culture in the west who were, at first, in a tiny majority and now are the main, are ignorant of this development. Their literary counterparts hated them and call them narrow, cruel and rude. Whether for good or ill, it is scientific technique which is the main cause of the changes that the world is undergoing

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