14 The Bible of Nature 



brings about, are, as statistics show, appallingly 

 orderly in their occurrence. In short, it is not a 

 multiverse we live in, but a universe. It is not 

 "all weather." 



We cannot deny that there are occurrences 

 which give us pause in our assertion of pervading 

 order — but most of these are within the human 

 realm, and many of them are by no means inevit- 

 able. Man is extraordinarly callous in the way of 

 taking risks, and perhaps the terrible tragedy of 

 much in human life is needed as a spur to incite 

 us to put an end to it. Most people profess to be 

 shocked at the wastage of life, often very indis- 

 criminate, involved in many microbic diseases or 

 in war, and yet the bulk of us do not really care so 

 very much — till the wolves attack our own flocks. 

 If we did care enough, we should soon put a stop 

 to both infectious diseases and war. A great 

 authority has said that "all epidemic disease 

 could be abolished in fifty years." Perhaps this 

 is too sanguine, perhaps the expert underesti- 

 mated the social cost of the riddance, but in 

 any case the declaration cannot be left out of 

 consideration. It does not take very long to rid a 

 country of rabies. Why not of other forms of 

 madness ? 



Network of Interrelations. — It is part of this order 

 that the world is a network of interrelations. 

 Part is linked to part by sure, though often subtle, 



