The realization
of the crucial significance
of relations between persons, and
of the fundamentally social
nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective
of the dominance
of our age by the scientific way
of thinking, the results
of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the
technical mastery
of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate
of dehumanization.
Critically, however, that new body
of law will constitute an undifferentiated mass
of measures ranging from those that are mundane and highly
technical in
nature (and hence the type
of thing that would, if enacted domestically, most likely take the form
of secondary legislation anyway) to those that deal with the sort
of broad, policy - heavy matters that are normally the preserve
of primary legislation that is vulnerable (if at all) to ministerial amendment only to a limited extent through the conferral
of specific Henry VIII powers.