22 PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



completed will have to be done over again, on the basis of 

 evolution. 



Just consider what difficulties scientific men, consciously or 

 unconsciously have placed in the path of science learners. 



Science, in the near future, will be supposed to teach us the 

 scheme of creation, and therefore to form for us some sound 

 conception of the universal energy, which moulds and moves all 

 things. Not only this, but it will be supposed to teach us all that 

 is knowable of ourselves and our surroudings, so that we may be 

 in a position to utilize, as much of the universe as possible, for our 

 own benefit, material, and so called spiritual, or non-material, 

 and all this will have to be taught in one's lifetime ! 



At the present moment science and philosophy too, are 

 encumbered by such an amount of friction-tackle, that ages will 

 be required to polish them down into some sort of intelligible 

 instruments of instruction. 



We have been shown that savage unpronounceable words have 

 been simplified in course of time, to suit the needs of mankind, 

 and to facilitate the acquisition of increasing knowledge. 



We have been shown that harsh sounds have been softened 

 down ; guttural sounds, probably borrowed from camels, and wild 

 animals, transformed into civilised enunciations ; long complicated 

 words simplified into pronounceable and thinkable words ; others 

 cut down, first in speech, then in writing, to meet the intelligence 

 of people worried by the turmoil of their struggle for existence. 



Notwithstanding all this, scientific men, instead of following 

 nature, and simplifying the means of acquiring knowledge, have 

 encumbered it with difficult expressions, so that ordinary mortals, 

 for whom undoubtedly God intended science also, are scared away 

 from it, just as busy people are scared away from cuneiform and 

 Chinese writing, wondering what they all can mean ! 



It should be remembered that the study of nature now means 

 the study of a complicated process of evolution from the simplest 

 forms with simple surroundings, to the highest animals and plants, 

 with complicated surroundings. 



The whole scheme of plant evolution would appear simple 

 enough in essence, but owing to the sub- division of labour in 

 botanical studies, and hair-splitting, each hair splitter inventing a 

 multiplicity of new terms, the study of plant-life has been rendered 

 unnecessarily difficult. 



