CHAPTER XXXII 



PROGRESS IN DISCOVERY 



Anything which sheds light on the nature of life and of man himself, 

 his organic constitution and equipment, the laws and possibilities of his 

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

 will appear immeasurably more important than the fate of individual men 

 or nations, because those things have a fundamental significance for the 

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

 est sort of personal significance for everyone who is reflective enough to be 

 conscious of the questions presented by his own being. 



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

 Spanish mains or over European hill and dale, but within the skulls of the 

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

 thinkers and the immortal poets. 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 than the battle of 

 Waterloo. COURTNEY LEMON, Pearson's Magazine, February, 1917, p. 183 ff . 



I 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 think, but thousands can 

 think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, philosophy and religion 

 all in one. EMERSON 



Beginning at home. What biological discoveries have you 

 made? Write down a list of them and tell in each case 

 how you happened to make the discovery. Have you told 

 anyone about them or published your discoveries so that 



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