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perience, and ultimately the discovery of that last fact of experience to 

 which and through which all the other facts are related. It is therefore 

 an age-long process, and has to do with the emotional and moral part of 

 man as well as with the logical and intellectual. It is in fact the dis- 

 covery of the nature of Man himself, and of the true order of his being. 



Modern Science though seeking for a unity in Nature fails to find 

 it, because, from the nature of the case, any large body of knowledge in 

 which all people will agree is limited to certain small regions of human 

 experience regions in which very likely no unity is discoverable. It 

 takes the emerald, and breaks it up ; treats of its color and light-refract- 

 ing qualities on the one hand; of its crystaline structure and hardness on 

 the other ; of its weight and density ; and of its chemical properties ; all 

 separately, and producing long strings of generalisation from each aspect 

 of the subject. But how all these qualities are conjoined together, what 

 their relation is which constitutes the emerald yea, even the smallest bit 

 of emerald dust it (wisely) does not attempt to say. It takes the man 

 and dissects him; treats of his blood, his nerves, his bones, his brain; of his 

 senses of sight, of touch, of hearing; but of that which binds these together 

 into a unity, of their true relation to each other in the man, it is silent. 



Yet the man knows of himself that he is a unity ; he knows that all 

 parts of his body have relation to him, and to each other ; he knows that 

 his senses of sight and hearing and touch and taste and smell are con- 

 joined in the focus of his individual life, in his " I am ; " he knows that 

 all his faculties and powers, however much they may belong to different 

 planes, spiritual or material, or may come under the inquisition of differ- 

 ent Sciences, have an order of their own among each other that there is- 

 an ultimate Science of them even though he be not yet wholly versed in 

 it. And he knows moreover that in a grain of dust, or in an emerald, or 

 in an orange, or in any object of Nature, the different attributes of the 

 object which the Sciences thus treat of separately are only the reflexion 

 of his different senses ; so that the problem of the conjunction of different 

 attributes in a body comes back to the same problem of the union of 

 various senses and powers in himself each individual object being only 

 a*case, externalised as it were, and made a matter of consciousness, of 

 the general relation to each other of his own sensations and feelings. 

 Knowing all this I say he sees that the understanding of Nature in 

 general and of the laws or relations which he thinks he perceives among 

 external things, must always depend on the relations and laws which he 

 tacitly assumes, or which he is directly conscious of, as existing between 

 the various parts of his own being ; and that the ultimate truth which 

 Science the divine Science is really in search of is a moral Truth an 

 understanding of what man is, and the discovery of the true relation to 

 each other of all his faculties involving all experience, and an exercise 

 of every faculty, physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual, instead of 

 one set of faculties only. 



