Science of the Future : A Forecast 



They simply feel differently ; they are different 

 persons. 



The Thought then is the expression, the out- 

 growth, the covering of underlying Feeling. And 

 in the great life of Man as a whole, as in the lesser 

 life of the individual, his continual new birth 

 and inward growth causes his thought-systems also 

 continually to change and be replaced by new ones. 

 Like the bud-sheaths and husks in a growing 

 plant or tree they give form for a time to the life 

 within ; then they fall off and are replaced. The 

 husk prepares the bud underneath, which is to 

 throw it off. The thought prepares and protects 

 the feeling underneath, which growing will in 

 evitably reject it ; and when a thought has been 

 formed it is already jalse^ i.e.^ ready to fall. 



We are now, then, in a position to come back 

 to the question of a genuine Science, truly so- 

 called. 



As there is no invariable and absolute datum 

 on the fringe of Humanity — no definable flying 

 atom on which we can found our reasonings — 

 and as Modern Science, considered as an actual 

 representation of the universe, falls miserably to 

 pieces in consequence — is it possible that we have 

 made a mistake in the direction in which we have 

 sought for our datum ; and may it be that we should 

 look for that in the very Centre of Humanity in- 

 stead of in its remotest circumference } In that 

 direction evidently, if we could penetrate, we 

 should expect to find, not a shadowy intellectual 

 generalisation, but the very opposite of that — an 



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