CHAPTER III 



SO then it is our expression that Science relates to real knowl- 

 edge no more than does the growth of a plant, or the organiza- 

 tion of a department store, or the development of a nation: that 

 all are assimilative, or organizing, or systematizing processes that 

 represent different attempts to attain the positive state the state 

 commonly called heaven, I suppose I mean. 



There can be no real science where there are indeterminate 

 variables, but every variable is, in finer terms, indeterminate, or 

 irregular, if only to have the appearance of being in Intermediate- 

 ness is to express regularity unattained. The invariable, or the 

 real and stable, would be nothing at all in Intermediateness 

 rather as, but in relative terms, an undistorted interpretation of 

 external sounds in the mind of a dreamer could not continue to 

 exist in a dreaming mind, because that touch of relative realness 

 would be of awakening and not of dreaming. Science is the at- 

 tempt to awaken to realness, wherein it is attempt to find regularity 

 and uniformity. Or the regular and uniform would be that which 

 has nothing external to disturb it. By the universal we mean the 

 real. Or the notion is that the underlying super-attempt, as ex- 

 pressed in Science, is indifferent to the subject-matter of Science: 

 that the attempt to regularize is the vital spirit. Bugs and stars 

 and chemical messes: that they are only quasi-real, and that of 

 them there is nothing real to know; but that systematization of 

 pseudo-data is approximation to realness or final awakening 



Or a dreaming mind and its centaurs and canary birds that 

 turn into giraffes there could be no real biology upon such sub- 

 jects, but attempt, in a dreaming mind, to systematize such ap- 

 pearances would be movement toward awakening if better mental 

 co-ordination is all that we mean by the state of being awake 

 relatively awake. 



So it is, that having attempted to systematize, by ignoring ex- 

 ternality to the greatest possible degree, the notion of things 

 dropping in upon this earth, from externality, is as unsettling and 

 as unwelcome to Science as tin horns blowing in upon a musician's 



