The consciousness which has gone into these remarkable inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can be traced back to the primary consciousness of man, and that is the divine part of his being, the Overself. But all these inventions serve a material purpose, and man's use of them could have been foreseen, for they have been used only to draw him deeper down into materialism and farther away from the higher goal which has been set for him by the World-Idea. Science is neutral. What he has done to apply its discoveries shows the kind of thought which is uppermost in his mind, and that the use of these inventions is for selfish, exaggeratedly selfish, purposes by individuals and by nations. The negative purposes have predominated over the positive use made of them.
It is clear enough that with the terrible weapons now in the hands of the human race, and with the low moral ideals which it holds, sooner or later they will be used to destroy the greater part of the population of the planet.
-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 6 : Science > # 88
