Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



less transformations. As to the numerous ** Laws 

 of Nature " which in the nineteenth century 

 we were just about to establish for all eternity, 

 it is only with the greatest difficulty that any of 

 these can now be discovered — most of them 

 having got secreted away into the darkness of 

 ancient text-books : where they lead forlorn and 

 sightless existences, like the fish in the caves of 

 Kentucky. 



Here again — in my chapters on Science — 

 though some expressions remain which are now 

 out of date, I have thought it best to leave them 

 as originally written : the meanings and general 

 conclusions being still valid and as they were. 

 It will be seen that the general drift of these chapters 

 is to point the moral that the true field of science 

 is to be found in Life, and that the best way to 

 knozv things is to experience their meaning and 

 to identify oneself with them through Action. 

 From a study on these principles will ultimately 

 emerge a Science truly humane and creative, 

 masterful, and capable of building a true home for 

 men — instead of the feverish, spectral and self- 

 deluding thing which has usurped the name up 

 to now. 



Something the same will happen with the con- 

 ception of Morality. The abstract codes on this 

 subject, which have wrought so much havoc by 

 their fatal intrusion on the field of human Life, 

 are rapidly fliding away. These ghosts, like the 

 ghosts of Nature's " Laws," are receiving their 

 quietus. And the general outline which was sug- 



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