II42 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



Social 

 (Society) 



Biological 

 (Life) 



Physical 



(Matter and 



Energy) 



Mathematical 

 (Space, 



Movement, 

 Time) 



Though in this presentment the physical, biological, and social sciences 

 are seen to have each and all the same main sub-divisions, conditioned 

 by the similar compounding of space, energy, and time, it is here worth 

 noting that in the physical world, from stellar to atomic studies, spatial 

 conditions are most manifest; and in the biological the functional and 

 energetic; while in the social field, so fundamentally historic and change- 

 ful, time relations become paramount. Hence, though in all these fields 

 of sciences we deal with space, energy, and time — say, s, e, and t — in 

 the physical world our initial formation and clearest line of approach 

 may be broadly summarised as S, e, t; for the biological world, E, s, t 

 (or E, S, t) : and in the social as T, e, s. 



