CHAPTER XII 



THE COMPULSION OF NATURE-ACTION IN 



SCIENCE, RELIGION, ART, AND 



GOVERNMENT 



The Compulsion of Intelligence The Expression of Nature's 

 Self-Constructive Ways in Man's Self-Constructive Social Laws 

 Mental Reorientation The Militant Phase of Intelligent Action 

 Fear as a Counter Evil The Conservation of Mental Rightness 

 through Education The Creative Value of Truth as the Expression 

 of a Natural Creative Law The Cooperative Factor, Mental and 

 Moral, in Animism The Tendency to Unify and Simplify Natural 

 Phenomena Rightness as a Saving and Directing Agency in Mental 

 and Physical Action The Community of Purpose in Science and 

 Religion. 



WE have seen that science, religion, and philoso- 

 phy are more or less coherent systems of thought and 

 conduct, growing out of man's conscious attempts to 

 utilize nature-action in self-construction. 



Man's first glimmer of "truth" was the discovery 

 that some ways were good and others bad ; some things 

 helped, others hindered; that in order to prosper he 

 must appropriate to himself the helpers and avoid the 

 hinderers, or else subordinate his ways to their ways. 



In spite of all his longing for freedom of action, 

 mysterious forces constantly hedged him about, lim- 

 iting the scope of his enterprises, and determining 

 the outlets to his purposes. 



These limitations and compulsions made his errors 

 manifest; they were the chief sources of his terrors, 

 and the compelling instruments to his persuasion; for 



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