14 Evolution of Life and Form. 



seeing the differences that divide the classes of the 

 like from the classes of the unlike. But in order 

 that this may be done, inasmuch as nature is infinite 

 both in the vast and in the minute, man demands, 

 to supplement his limited senses, instruments and 

 apparatus of the most exquisite and delicate 

 character ; so that it has been even said that the 

 progress of science is the progress of the exquisite 

 nature of the apparatus which science uses, and 

 scientific men will devise a more delicate balance, 

 a more dainty way of adjustment, instrument after 

 instrument, until perfection seems well-nigh to be 

 reached ; the modern man of science, to carry on 

 his researches, demands a vast array of apparatus 

 that he must use for his work, for according to the 

 delicacy of his apparatus is the extent of his obser- 

 vation of the forms to which his attention is directed. 

 But the man of science of the ancient type does 

 not ask for instruments; he is not studying the 

 evolution of forms; he has to study life, not form ; 

 and for such study he must evolve himself, the life 

 that is within him, for only life can measure life, 

 only life can respond to the vibrations of the living ; 

 his work is to unfold himself, to bring out of the 

 depths of his own nature the divine powers that lie 

 hidden therein, not in the senses but in the Self. 

 His investigations can only be carried on by means 



