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tion open up so wide and straight 

 an avenue into the very heart of truth 

 as in the subject of human thought 

 automatically evolved in the structure 

 of human speech. Words are not 

 made; they grow. They are uncon- 

 sciously evolved. And that out of which 

 the evolution takes place is the functional 

 activity of the mental consciousness of 

 Man in its contact with the phenomena 

 of the Universe. What that conscious- 

 ness sees it faithfully records in speech. 

 It is like the highly -sensitised plates 

 which are now exposed to the starry 

 heavens, and which repeat, with absolute 

 fidelity, the luminous phenomena of 

 Space. What should we think of an 

 astronomer who thought himself entitled 

 to manipulate this evidence at his 

 pleasure to strike out appearances, 

 however clear, which conflict with some 

 cosmic theories of his own? Yet this 



