TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIFE 1419 



Individual, as for his Folk, the Autodrama of simple life. When this 

 widens, into co-emotion and Community, we have (Etho) Polito- 

 drama, of which the positive (or negative) Synergy is ever making 

 History. This becomes intelligible, as Chronodrama; while the 

 imaged achievement is so far Eudrama, when not the opposite. 

 What, then is this whole Biodrama? At best the Syndrama, of 

 Evolution. 



Next, with our Place realised as in Cosmic drama, and Work in 

 Technodrama, consider their interactions. For in work- Place we can 

 not only, as usual, observantly apply our experience-Sense, our 

 technic productivity, and Experience, to better Work, but enhance 

 our experienced- Sense to veritable Discovery; and continue this in 

 our work-place, now laboratory, to further discoveries still. Con- 

 versely, as sense-experience sharpens into knowing our natural 

 resources, and towards better use of them, we have not only dis- 

 coveries, but are thus also in the way of Inventions. 



Thus when in laboratory we use the technic masterpiece called 

 microscope, the dirty water-drop may reveal new marvels: while 

 telescope or spectroscope open yet greater discoveries. Conversely, 

 as our physical nature-knowledge grows and deepens, and we apply 

 this, our technical powers increase to invention. Thus life trains for 

 discovery and invention, and these in reciprocal advance — hence the 

 significance of modern research, in each field or both. 



If, then, these examples of the logic of life are clear, what hinders 

 us from further developments, in each of these fields of life? And 

 what also from continuing the same thought-game further, so as to 

 see the interactions of each of these other sub-dramas, and even the 

 results to the whole? Space prevents elaborating this: but all the 

 better if the reader play this thought-game for himself — of course 

 with some needed patience, as for the solitary game so-called. 



It will be evident that in such development, of Efo or Pwf, these 

 have incorporated much from the other side, of Of e, Fwp : and that 

 in our discovery and invention we are also developing all that, and 

 bringing it to bear more and more. Yet, such achievement, such 

 supposed "talent" or even * 'genius" to make them, is but of Life, 

 and in Life in evolution. If so, what we call "ordinary life" is but 

 its arrest; whence too much of what it calls "education" — be this 

 "technical" or verbalist — inhibits rise beyond that level. Yet if 

 man have really discovery and invention open to him, waiting for 

 him, what he mainly needs is release, to enter on productive careers 

 creative^ intellectual, practical, or both. And the like in each and 

 all the other interacting elements of the Life-drama. Again, then, 

 it becomes clear that the Super-man is within man, and needs no 

 external tyrant to repress him: yet more of social thought and 

 applied wisdom, wise and wide enough to aid release, and to enrich 

 opportunity. 



