Know Thyself 45 



zling. The situation is certainly one in which Pros- 

 pero's advice to Alonzo should be heeded. It calls for 

 careful, cheerful search for what is most probable 

 rather than for dogged defence of some theory held as 

 though it were absolute and sufficient truth. 



Does this meager narrative of the achievements of 

 science which bear on the problem of man's nature and 

 his place in nature fail to convince you that science 

 has something basal and indispensable to contribute to 

 man's understanding of himself? Is there any ques- 

 tion that the injunction of old should have a promi- 

 nent place in the temples of science as well as in those 

 of philosophy and religion and art? 



What bearing has the argument presented on the 

 transcendent question of how men and nations should 

 treat one another should behave toward one another? 

 Among the teachings about the nature of morality 

 that have been potent in the history of mankind, there 

 is one which says that the world itself is a moral order 

 that all things work together for good whether you 

 love the Lord or not. I hope the reader will see that 

 the conceptions here sketched resemble this teaching 

 more than any other with which he is familiar. But I 

 hope he will see also wherein they differ from it. That 

 nature is moral I do not contend I do not believe. So 

 much destruction and suffering and death come upon 

 man through flood, tornado, earthquake, pestilence and 

 the rest, as to make this personified conception of 

 nature untenable. What I do say is that man as 



