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edge-making or for co-operation in science, he is also 

 likely to find himself pre-occupied with his own 

 problems, mastered by his strongest personal interests, 

 burdened by immediate duties, with neither time 

 nor energy left for that effort which an active reali- 

 sation of the unities implies. For lack of sympathy 

 in some cases, for lack of synergy in other cases, the 

 progress of synthesis is sluggish. 



For this reason we emphasise our thesis that the 

 progressiveness of science depends first on a realisa- 

 tion of the Unity of Life. 



The scientist, by which we mean the student of the 

 order of nature, is incomplete in his arm-chair; he 

 is even incomplete in his laboratory. He must be, 

 in some measure, also a citizen, a man of feeling, and 

 a philosopher ! That even his science will suffer 

 from his practical denial of the trinity of doing, feel- 

 ing and knowing, is our argument, and this the slow 

 progress of science seems to us to bear out. One 

 might appeal to biologists who have because of their 

 expert knowledge been appointed to serve on gov- 

 ernmental commissions, dealing with practical prob- 

 lems of life, and ask whether, after allowing for 

 the delay of their personal investigations, they did 

 not return to these with new zest, widened outlook, 

 and fresh insight. The German government digni- 

 fies prominent scientists with the title of Geheimrath 

 or Privy Councillor, and in many cases there is an 

 honour conferred, and that is all. But behind the 

 honorary title, there is the suggestion sometimes 

 realised that the expert advice thus dignified is at 

 the service of the government in critical situations, 

 a plague, a famine, an exploitation of new territory 

 and so forth. That the same sort of expert advice 

 should be at the command of all nations who nurture 



