CIIAPTKK XXXII 



PKOGHKSS IN DISCOVERY 



Aiiytliint,' which sheds lii^ht on the nature of life and of man himself, 

 his orj^anic constitution and ecjuipment, the laws and pussihilities of his 

 mind and body, his place and fate in and relation to the rest of the universe, 

 will appear innneasurably more important than the fate (tf individual men 

 or nations, — because those thin^j^s have a fundamental si<;nilicance f(jr the 

 whole human race everywhere and for all time, and likewise have the deep- 

 est sort of personal significance for everyone who is reflective enou<,di tcj be 

 conscious of the questions presented by his own beinu. 



The great battles of man have not been fought on (irecian plains or 

 Spanish mains or over Eurt)pean hill and dab', but within the skulls of the 

 great investigators, up and down the brain valleys and ridges of the great 

 thinkers and the immortal i)oets. It is the great captains of thought and 

 feeling that have led forth the bright-shining forces of the human mind and 

 soul in the only wars that have results of permanent and universal impor- 

 tance, — wars in which thoughts, ideas, facts, conceptions are deployed 

 and maneuvered in phalanxes and battalions to the greater issues of our 

 human fate. 



Measured against such Himalayas of the human mind and soul as Darwin 

 and Marx and Newton, Napoleon and Bismarck and Alexander are not even 

 among the foothills of human significance. The publication of "The Origin 

 of Species" was a more vital event in human history tlian the battle of 

 Waterloo. — CotuTNKv Li:mon, Pearson s Ma</<izine, February. lUl 7, \). 183 ff. 



1 am impressed with the fact that the greatest thing a human soul ever 

 does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. 

 Hundreds of people can talk for one who can tiiink. but thousands can 

 tiiink for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry. i)hiloso|»hy anil religion 

 all in one. — Emkkson 



Beginning at home. What biuloo^ical discoveries have you 

 made? Write down a list of them and tell in eaeh ease 

 how yon lia])penod t<> niak(^ tlie discovery. Tfave yon told 

 anyone about tht'iii or i>ul)lislu'(l your diseoveries so that 



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