INTRODUCTORY 3 



botany, the science of plants ; zoology, the science of 

 animals ; anthropology, the science of man ; morphology, 

 the science of forms ; physiology, the science of functions ; 

 anatomy, the science of structure ; biogeny, the science 

 of development ; aecology, the physiology of work ; his- 

 tology, the science of tissues ; organology, the science of 

 organs ; blastology, the science of persons ; and cytology, 

 karmology, phylogeny, palaentology, geneology, trophon- 

 omy, chorology, ontogeny, sensonomy, psychology, 

 chemistry and physics. However, after reading these 

 subjects, you have a lot of theories about metaphysics, 

 mechanism, hylozoism, dynamism, idealism, materialism, 

 hedonism, monism, dualism, vitalism, gases and fluids, 

 statics, dynamics, acoustics, gravitation, electricity, and a 

 great number of others too numerous to mention. 



Now it is clear that the busy man of today cannot afford 

 to read up on all these subjects and theories, even if he 

 understood the language used, as it would take up half 

 of his life time to do so. After reading up on these sub- 

 jects, I do not agree with any of them as to the cause of 

 growth, evolution and development of life, heredity, in- 

 stinctive and reflex action, and that is why I have written 

 this book. 



After I have stated what my opinion and ideas are on 

 these subjects, the reader must not stop and say to him- 

 self, "Why, that proposition is ridiculous, I do not be- 

 lieve it," but he must go on and read the whole book, as 

 this is a big subject and no one can understand it so as 

 to form an opinion without reading every chapter of this 

 book. For thousands of years we thought the sun 

 coursed around the earth ; it was a bold theory to bring 

 the sun to a standstill and set the earth m motion. We 

 remember how poor Galileo had to suffer inprisonment 

 for supporting this theory, which had been proven sev- 



