72 ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE 



his eyes. If he could stand in a modern 

 gallery and see artists of all ages and genera- 

 tions at work, or talk to writers, dramatists, 

 and philosophers of all times. Yet this is what 

 the scientist possesses in living intensely 

 active nature, and this glorious thing it is 

 that he is sometimes asked blindly to sur- 

 render for a pre-conceived unnatural world 

 with isolated creative acts ended in the distant 

 ages of the past, never repeated now, and of 

 which the key has been for ever lost. 



Truly we are only beginning to realize as in 

 a dream that creation and the design of 

 creation is something nobler than man's 

 intelligence has yet conceived, that Nature is 

 not powerless to create again such as she has 

 once created and is still at work, and that we 

 must look with fresh eyes and fresh interest 

 at things being produced with eternal youth 

 from the womb of Nature. 



Continuity, not dis-continuity, is Nature's 

 plan, and it is only by centring thought 

 around our own individual lives, whose 

 relationships and pasts and futures we do not 

 understand that preference arises for dis- 

 continuity. The full and true relationships 

 of the individual life will only become realiz- 

 able by patient study of the whole cosmical 

 scheme. 



