Science of the Future : A Forecast 



to hirn^ and to each other ; he knows that his 

 senses of sight and hearing and touch and taste 

 and smell are conjoined in the focus of his indivi- 

 dual life, in his " I am ; " he knows that all his 

 faculties and powers, however much they may- 

 belong to different planes, spiritual or material, 

 or may come under the inquisition of different 

 Sciences, have an order of their own among each 

 other — that there is an ultimate Science of them 

 — even though he be not yet wholly versed in 

 it. And he knows, moreover, that in a grain of 

 dust, or in an emerald, or in an orange, or in any 

 object of Nature, the different attributes of the 

 object — which the Sciences thus treat of separ- 

 ately — are only the reflexion of his different senses ; 

 so that the problem of the conjunction of different 

 attributes in a body comes back to the same pro- 

 blem of the union of various senses and powers 

 in himself — each individual object being only 

 a case, externalised as it were, and made a matter 

 of consciousness, of the general relation to each 

 other of his own sensations and feelings. Know- 

 ing all his — I say — he sees that the understanding 

 of Nature in general and of the laws or relations 

 which he thinks he perceives among external 

 things must always depend on the relations and 

 laws which he tacitly assumes, or which he is 

 directly conscious of, as existing between the 

 various parts of his own being ; and that the 

 ultimate truth which Science — the divine Science — 

 is really in search of is a moral or psychologic Truth 

 — an understanding of what man is, and the discovery 



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