Science of the Future : A Forecast 



active, both in mind and body, than before. That 

 is all very well. But Mrs. Brown has a destina- 

 tion. (Indeed how would she ever have got into 

 the middle of Oxford Street at all, if she had not 

 had one ? and if she did get there with no des- 

 tination at all, but merely to skip about, would 

 there be any Mrs. Brown left in a short time ?) 

 The question is, " What is the destination of 

 Man ? " 



About this last question unfortunately we hear 

 little. The theory is (I hope I am not doing it 

 injustice) that by studying your environment 

 sufficiently you will find out that is, that by 

 investigating Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Ethics, 

 etc., you will discover the destiny of man. But 

 this seems to me the same as saying that by studying 

 the laws of cabs and 'buses sufficiently you will find 

 out where you are going to. These are ways 

 and means. Study them by all means, that is 

 right enough ; but do not think they will tell you 

 where to go. You have to use them, not they 

 you. 



In order therefore for the environment to act, 

 there must be a destination. This I suppose is 

 expressed in the biological dictum, " organism 

 is made by function as well as environment." 

 What then is the function of Man ? And here 

 we come back again to the meaning of the word 



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Nothwithstanding then the prevalence of the 

 foot regime, and that the heathen so furiously rage 

 together in their belief in it, let us suggest that 



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