id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195607 Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958. The message of Bethlehem and problems of the day : 1955 Christmas message ... 1956 .txt text/plain 6787 213 55 Modern achieve- ments, certainly remarkable, in scientific and technical de- velopment will assuredly be able to give man an extensive mastery over the forces of nature, over sickness and even over the beginning and the end of human life ; but it is also certain that such mastery will not be able to transform the earth into a paradise of assured enjoyment. Therefore it once more appears true that a quantitative method, however perfected, neither can, nor ought to, con- trol the social and historical reality of human life. cache/_005195607.txt txt/_005195607.txt