Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



evidently involves all experience, and ultimately 

 the discovery of that last fact of experience to 

 which and through which all the other facts are 

 related. It is therefore an age-long process, and 

 has to do with the emotional and moral part of 

 man as v/ell as with the logical and intellectual. 

 It is, in fact,' the discovery of the nature of Man 

 himself, and of the true order of his being. 



Modern Science — though seeking for a unity 

 in Nature — fails to find it, because, from the 

 nature of the case, any large body of knowledge 

 in which all people will agree is limited to certain 

 small regions of human experience — regions in 

 which very likely no unity is discoverable. It 

 takes the emerald, and breaks it up ; treats of its 

 colour and light-refracting qualities on the one 

 hand ; of its crystalline structure and hardness 

 on the other ; of its weight and density ; and of 

 its chemical properties ; all separately, and pro- 

 ducing long strings of generalisation from each 

 aspect of the subject. But how all these qualities 

 are conjoined together, what their relation is 

 which constitutes the emerald — yea, even the 

 smallest bit of emerald dust — it (wisely) does not 

 attempt to say. It takes the man and dissects 

 him ; treats of his blood, his nerves, his bones, 

 his brain ; of his senses of sight, of touch, of 

 hearing ; but of that which binds these together 

 into a unity, of their true relation to each other 

 in the man, it is silent. 



Yet the man knows of himself that he is a unity ; 

 he knows that all parts of his body have relation 



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