The free world is being pressed by circumstances to reorient some of its processes and aims of education. The accent is on the physical sciences, on technological knowledge, on invention and discovery, that relate to a more complete dominion over material environment. One paramount issue concerns space satellites and the possibility of manned rockets that will reach the moon and beyond.
A friend once remarked, "Men will be no happier in viewing the earth from the moon or from a faraway planet than they are in viewing the planet from on earth." What he said is true. Happiness is not derived from space travel.
But there is a good reason for our seeking dominion over the kind of limitations that keep us earth-bound in thought or action. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of the Science of Christianity, writes of future dominion in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 125), "The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars,—he will look out from them upon the universe."
