I4i8 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



A new group enters by the eastern door; and he is reheved to 

 find them free from these various material views of the West, indeed 

 frankly contemptuous or pitying of them. They know that music 

 is in the soul, but, alas, there they leave it: they have no use for his 

 organ, his scores, or his active voicing of them ; for them all alike are 

 but material and external: so they are deaf to him also. And though 

 many bear upon their breast or brow an outward and visible symbol 

 of the movement of life, they have too often turned it the wrong way. 



Wellnigh in despair, he makes sign for silence : he begins to play, 

 but none listen; he can reach no ear! Indeed, each group shows 

 dissatisfaction, and that increasingly; till at length, and from all 

 sides, they pounce on him to tear him in pieces. So thus — as night- 

 mare — ended this actual dream. Yet first it was a dream of hope, 

 indeed of full confidence in the Muse- world of Life; and that in its 

 unified material and psychic expression it could not but reach all 

 minds — the esthetic, the mechanical, and the learned alike: or 

 surely at least those of the Orient, with their inner life oftener 

 awake, and more deeply cultivated. But neither the minds confined 

 to external outlook, nor those of strictly interior meditation and 

 discipline, suffice for this. Vital Synthesis is not reached by either: 

 since Life, from its simplest to its highest manifestations, evolves 

 through increasing interaction of the inward with the outward 

 world, and conversely. With this conception hope returns, with 

 faith in the possibilities of this full Muse-Organ of Life, even to the 

 awaking and arousal of its spectators as auditors — sometimes even 

 to organists in their turn. 



To understand things in the world without, or thoughts in the 

 world within, we must thus take them together. Yet no longer merely 

 in the too abstract terms of "Subject" and "Object", but as 

 Subject-object and Object-subject in perpetual interaction, as 

 Psycho-biosis and Bio-psychosis, Mind-body and Body-mind; and 

 these as expressed and observed in actual life, and interpreted from 

 it. And all this as concretely and clearly as may be, throughout each 

 and all Life's levels, lower to higher, past to present, and with due 

 evolutionary forelook towards further possibilities. The intricacies 

 and subtleties of epistemological controversies are thus practically 

 and intelligibly harmonised; and, along with these, the too dis- 

 embodied and too simply embodied psychologies, of idealistic and 

 materialistic or behaviouristic schools. 



THE DRAMATIC ASPECTS OF LIFE— Place(s) Work Folk : Folk 

 Work Place. What tiresome repetition! Yes, as words; but not as the 

 characteristic sides and wards of the key of Life; with freshened 

 realisation of how to apply it and of what one gains by that. For 

 Place — as we come to realise it, and thus begin to understand it — is 

 Cosmodrama: Work is Technodrama. Thus develops for each 



