A Rational and Humane Science 



it at last in its little brain spontaneously and in- 

 evitably reflects the whole, and becomes the mirror 

 of it. This would answer to what we have called 

 a really rational and humane Science. 



Man has to find and to feel his true relation to 

 other creatures and to the whole of which he is 

 a part, and has to use his brain to further this. 

 Science zV, as we all know, the search for Unity. 

 That is its ideal. It unites innumerable pheno- 

 mena under one law ; and then it unites many 

 laws under one higher ; always seeking for the 

 ultimate complete integration. But (is it not 

 obvious ?) Man cannot find that unity oj the 

 Whole until he feels his unity with the Whole. 

 To found a Science of one-ness on the murderous 

 Warfare and insane Competition of men with each 

 other, and on the Slaughter and Vivisection of 

 animals — the search for unity on the practice of 

 disunity — is an absurdity, which can only in the 

 long run reveal itself as such. 



I do not know whether it seems obvious to 

 you, but it does to me, that Man will never find 

 in theory the unity of outer Nature till he reaches 

 in practice the unity of his own. When he has 

 learnt to harmonise in himself all his powers, 

 bodily and mental, his desires, faculties, needs, 

 and bring them into perfect co-operation — when 

 he has found the true hierarchy of himself — 

 then somehow I think that Nature round him 

 will reflect this order, and range itself in clear 

 and intelligible harmony about him. 



But I can say no more. I have dragged you 



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