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the universe and the knowledge of it, which has been so 

 long tacitly understood as dual, should be recognised as 

 one and indivisible. 



Tentatively, for example, the combined field of know- 

 ledge might be occupied with an array of active searchers 

 after truth, stretching from the astronomers, composed of 

 physicists and mathematicians, turning on a central body 

 of biologists, who in their turn would rest on and merge 

 in that long existent and well-disciplined body of workers 

 and speculators, the metaphysicians, philosophers, and 

 theologians u pure and simple." The ends and aims of 

 this combined array of militant searchers after the truth, 

 being found to be identical along the whole line^ it would 

 necessarily be found that the common as well as the 

 particular progress of the truth was receiving an impetus, 

 and forward impulse, which could not fail to make itself 

 felt to the most remote corners of the whole field of truth. 



Besides union being strength, the fabric of universal 

 truth would thus be strengthened, from below upwards, 

 from within outwards, or from centre to periphery in 

 such a way that the great object, the betterment of the 

 human race as well as all departments of physical and 

 moral work, would follow as the day follows the night in 

 quite a natural and law-dependent way, proving that truth 

 is not only one and indivisible, but that the progress of 

 humanity along the lines of emancipation from disease, 

 physical and moral, is dependent on the application of 

 means dictated by a complete knowledge of the laws of 

 the universe, physical and moral moreover, the entire 

 human family would thus be brought within the same fold 

 of what is really divine truth, and it would be able, through- 

 out its various races, to see eye to eye from one end to 

 the other, and to direct its efforts with a single eye to the 

 advancement of the true interests of the whole by the 

 individual efforts of each ; and so would be realised 

 the prophetic utterance of Robert Burns, the "poet of 

 humanity," when in an inspired moment he pronounced 

 the faith " that man to man the world o'er should brithers 

 be an a' that." 



We have said that this regime should be adopted 

 tentatively, but we claim that the necessity for it rests on 



