Science of the Future : A Forecast 



(the true cosmos of Man — the conceptions of 

 man and god combined) — existing inchoate or 

 embryonic in every individual man, animal, plant, 

 or other creature — the object of all life, experience, 

 suffering, and toil — the ground of all sensation, 

 and the hidden, yet proper, theme of all thought 

 and study ? 



For this is it possible that Science will, speaking 

 broadly, have to leave the laboratory and become 

 one with Life ; or that the great currents of human 

 life will have to be turned on into these often 

 Augean stables of intellectual pruriency ? — the 

 investigation of Nature no longer a matter of the 

 intellect alone, but of patient listening and the 

 quiet eye, and of love and faith, and of all deep 

 human experience, bearing not superciliously its 

 weight towards the interpretation of the least 

 phenomenon — every " fact " thus deepened to 

 its utmost — all experience (rather than experi- 

 ment) courted, and filial walking with Nature, 

 rather than tearing of veils aside — the life of the 

 open air, and on the land and the waters, the 

 companionship of the animals and the trees and 

 the stars, the knowledge of their habits at first 

 hand and through individual relationship to them, 

 the recognition of their voices and languages, and 

 listening well what they themselves have to say ; 

 the keenest education of the senses towards the 

 physical powers and elements, and the acceptance 

 of all human experience, without exception — 

 till Science become a reality. 



Is it possible that in some sense, instead of 

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