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for the use of his neighbor as well. He says that all 
occupy important places in a Divine Cosmogony that 
strives ever toward perfection. 
Of course he grieves for those who suffer material 
injury by such shortsightedness as indiscriminate killing 
of earth’s creatures may bring about, as well as for those 
dissatisfied ones who drive their ships of Science into 
unknown harbors and ride unrestfully in shallow waters. 
He offers them the same field of quest and venture he 
travels in which they may delve understandingly if they 
choose to do so. 
The thought of wholeness (perfection) in Nature 
possesses him. He has found out that a study of Nature 
without including man in its scope is incomplete and hence 
unsatisfactory. Why? Because man is just as much a 
product of Nature (Divine Law) as is any other thing in 
creation. So the student of Nature refuses to consider 
attributes alone in his study. He is intent upon charac- 
teristics. How a thing lives and reacts toward his fel- 
lows is of prime worth to him. 
He endures experiences which teach him that life 
is made up of unnumbered individualities—that each one 
has a right to live and does so in peace with all others 
according to its guidance by Nature. When mankind 
assumes the right to remove from the earth in the name 
of Science, for sport, in the pursuit of opulence or in 
vainglorious exhibitions before his kind, immense num- 
bers of the myriad forms of life on every side, he does so 
at his peril. A day of reckoning comes that is pitiless and 
that is fatal to such daring ones. 
The stonewall of CAUSE which Science has erected 
is a man-made reduction of knowledge to rules and to 
symbols. It looms large and impenetrable before the 
scientist in his supreme effort to understand and to 
explain. The farther the scientist goes into the subject 
of Nature upon his present-day fundamentals the more 
deeply he is submerged in a sea of doubt. He starts out 
upon a long, long, most interesting journey to him and 
arrives—where ?—at the point from which he set forth! 
The scientific followers of Aristotle and his teachings 
tried in vain to account for this bugbear. In sharing with 
Democritus his atomic theory of the earth’s formation, 
