278 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



tion of a limited intellect to a correspondingly limited 

 environment. The defects of the present form of it 

 can be accounted for, on the same principle, and 

 they cannot be claimed as not defects, because of their 

 historical persistency So in the same manner will the 

 civilization of the future be evolved. It seems that the 

 evolution toward the natural will be much more rapid, 

 in the future, than it has been in the past; because of 

 the numerous scientific truths revealed to the people, 

 and because the number now doing their own thinking 

 is so much greater than ever before. When the thinkers 

 and reasoners become numerous enough, the less 

 informed majority will follow in the same line of 

 thought. It will be necessarily a higher and better type 

 of civilization, and at the same time there will be a 

 very much higher or a more scientific conception of 

 man's relation to the universe. It is probable that the 

 order of evolution will be: 



First : A better system of education, wherein 

 biology, psychology and sociology, especially the bear- 

 ings of these sciences on the welfare and happiness of 

 the human race, will replace all the fantastic and 

 unreal, in the present system of education. 



Second: Following the above, but apparently co- 

 existent with it, as the intellect expands by such 

 studies, the idea of the personal in natural and human 

 phenomena, will give place to the idea of the natural 

 and impersonal. the inductive method of dealing only 

 with facts. A brain will eventually be evolved whose 

 "pure experience" will, as Avenarius expresses it, be 

 "deproblematized". In other words, it will perceive 

 only an object, a fact, or a condition that is true; a 

 perception that Avill be common to all sane people. 

 Delusion will have disappeared. 



