BIOLOGY AMONG THE SCIENCES 1145 



Scaffolding veils its walls, 

 And dim dust floats and falls 

 As moving to and fro 

 Their tasks the masons ply. 



As the best masons have ever been those who could best appreciate 

 the design, the purpose and the spirit of their edifice, and this 

 within its city's life, so with the builders of the vast university- 

 museum-library of the sciences. This has been often so conceived 

 throughout the ages — as from Pythagoras to Aristotle, and from 

 the Museion of Alexandria to "Solomon's House" in the New 

 Atlantis. The Academies and learned societies of the succeeding 

 century arose with such great designs; and the eighteenth century 

 encyclopedists were true pioneers of that great renewal of Germanic 

 universities in the earlier nineteenth century which has so deeply 

 stimulated all others. Yet the more fully architectonic classification 

 of the sciences, best outlined by Comte, worked on by Spencer and 

 not a few others, and here graphically inter-related, still needs 

 re-afFirmation, if we are to see even our own science steadily, and 

 see it whole. Towards this, then, fuller and fuller classification and 

 organisation are ever required — and all in correlation with life in 

 its organic evolution, and in its social and cultural progress; and 

 towards fuller and deeper, wider and more harmonious education, 

 and even civilisation, throughout the world. For with what less 

 comprehensive evolutionary vision and purpose can the evolutionist 

 be inspired, and further evolved ? 



THE ORGANISMAL VIEW IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE.— White- 

 head has dhly outlined this view ; yet we submit it can gain in definite- 

 ness by fuller comparisons — as with this notation of life. Despite 

 Kant's insistence on time and space as ultimate and fundamental 

 categories — as no doubt in ordinary thought, and in physics also 

 till recently — are not these conceptions reached by analyses of our 

 yet more familiar experience of movement, from which both have 

 actually arisen for us ? However, let us put down them as a triad of 

 Space, Movement, Time: SMT. So from this we cannot but have 

 (as with P, W, and F) : 



