Bertrand Russell's Response To Industrialism

Bertrand Russell did attempt a solution of sorts to Nazi barbarism and outrage. Russell solutions are consumed with industrialism as a product of science, amendments to the moral code, psychology of the masses, and the human condition. First, industrialism is the largest product of scientific advancement. The progression did not lead to “any violent breach in continuity” and therefore placed no “psychological stresses” on the common man. People were still free to choose: “the old way…remain[ing] on the land” or “the adventurous migrating to new centers of industry”. The Communist Manifesto was the first result of industrialism on Germany, but soon was lost in the dust as the country became “industrially adult”. Before Germany became “educated”
Next, science tends to make moral codes look “superstitious and irrational”. Dangers may lurk in corners that one may never have thought of before therefore, requiring “different” moral codes from the “one inherited from the past”. But, the moral code is inscribed in stone and sent to use from the divine. It is not a wavering law that can be vetoed by authorities and must be upheld in the highest honour to secure a place in heaven. Science has vastly increased “human power”, “increased responsibility” which the common man is not ready to bear and the dangers of “arrogant self-assertion”. Arrogance can be avoided if only men realized they were not “omnipotent” and were not striving for “the will to power”. Furthermore, to protect human welfare mass psychology will become the “most important of all”. This is, of course, because of the populations ever changing “dominant moods” and the “corresponding ethic”. It the job of psychologists to understand and manipulate the population to keep it under control. Or in the case of Adolf Hitler manipulate into submission. The Nazis were operating the principle of sins being pardoned “in the name of