Not too long ago, the major efforts of men of good will were directed towards brotherhood, brotherhood between Jew and Christian, and all people of diverse faiths, colors and creeds. They recognized the dangers inherent in ideological divisiveness. Though on the one hand it may be good because of the strength that our society gains from the different strains fed into it, yet, on the other hand, this ideological clash might, in the hands of petty people, lead to fanaticism. Today, the question of the coexistence of different religions and peoples is still very important indeed. A look at the daily newspaper will prove that to everyone's satisfaction. However, the problem of brotherhood between members of different religious communities has now been transcended by the paramount question of our times: survival against the common enemy of all. I refer to the monster of technology, that giant whose feet are planted on a launching pad and whose head is in a mushroom cloud. Science, which we once believed would usher in our Utopia, has fathered the single greatest threat to the human race besides which all others fade into pale insignificance. The problem of our day and for many days to come is the threat of runaway technology. Recently, a magazine carried an interesting cartoon. It showed two scientists, astronomers, gazing through a large telescope at some distant star which was exploding. One turned to the other and said, “Well, there goes another one where they learned how to make it.” That is, indeed, the great danger to the lives of all of us. Shall the fate of Earth be the same as that exploding star which may have “learned to make it”? Basically, what faces us is the problem of Progress. The heyday of the idea of Progress — that people ought to progress and that they inevitably will — was concurrent with the rise of modern natural science in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. But regardless of whether we still subscribe to this philosophical p…