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 extraordinarily 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, 



