Education that does not awaken in us a desire for such knowledge as will prevent our colliding with an "invisible God, the power of our fellow man, and brute Nature," is as useless as a painted battleship on a painted ocean. In the determination of the origin of Mental Species we will learn, more definitely I hope than we have ever known, our relation to these powers.

CHAPTER V

ORIGIN OF MATERIAL SPECIES

The men who have contributed most to scientific progress are they who have confined themselves, almost exclusively, to the study of action developing organism. While the study of organs and their constituent substances has produced useful knowledge, it has not conducted us into that peculiar understanding which inspires and educates mankind.

Every scientific student of phenomena has eventually found himself standing on the shore of the limitless and prosaic ether. Whether his journey has been along the beaten pathway of the Nebular Hypothesis, the Planetismal Theory, Geology or Astrophysical Science, or as it sometimes happens, through a tortuous and blundering realization of the dissolving nature of things, he finds a point beyond which he cannot go.

Undismayed he turns to the analysis of matter, thinking perhaps he may in this way eventually isolate the ultimate element. Through this process of chemical analysis, he finds himself just where he stood before his mental analysis of the transforming obvious through the Nebular Hypothesis or Planetismal Theory stranded him. He has traced matter back to the gaseous state beyond which our present symbolical language will not go. He has realized that every form of matter of which he is conscious has neither weight nor density except in a relative sense; that every form of matter can be converted into a volatile gas and that every gas can be con

verted into matter. The insufficiency of experiments, likewise the different theories, is unimportant. Enough has been demonstrated to prove the rule.

Furthermore, by this method of investigation man has learned to read from the rock formation a history so remarkable that beside it the human history of manhis feeble efforts and petty quarrels becomes insignificant. To the geologist the present unprecedented military maelstrom in Europe is, when compared to the tragedies of geological history, no more than the struggles of a fly in a cream pitcher. The rock formations, with their fossil pictures, constitute a record more accurate than any human history ever written. Moreover, when we are able to separate ourselves from the human phenomena around us we will learn that they were both made in the same way. We will find that they were both accidental records, whether they were a leaf impressed in the sandstone or hieroglyphics made by the human hand on parchment or paper.

If after learning to read the conic past and anticipate the conic future, would it not be well to turn our thought away from the dissolving elements that leave us stranded on the shore of time and change, and investigate the power that enables us to do these things?

Here men have turned naturally to thought analysis, which method has been always the parting of ways where the investigator becomes a speculator. The oldest legends tell us of two powers that have been for immeasurable time warring with each other. Accompanying this is the belief that some day the good (light) will be separated from the bad (darkness) and by some hypostatical process the problems of life would be solved. Un

fortunately for this method of research there crept into it the belief that nothing could be demonstrated in this life, and as a result we must pass through a process believed to be the separating of the body from the soul before we could know right from wrong. It is doubtful if a more perfect state of mind could have been devised to keep intelligence out of the world. But there were those who would not accept this and persisted in their research in spite of opposition. These investigators were able to realize how the process of the ages had dissolved the conclusions of the past. This apperception was the origin of scientific investigation. By the word Scientific I do not have reference, particularly, to those highly trained in the different branches of scientific research, but rather to those persons who read and study for the purpose of uncovering truth in contradistinction to the many who only investigate phenomena for the purpose of finding some evidence which might be used to sustain some preconceived idea, creed, doctrine or hypothesis. This is the faculty on which has been built the wonderful structure of science. Plato's separation of the variable from the non-variable and his determination of the selfmoving is the final word in this form of investigation until we have isolated the non-variable or self-moving from the variable or moved. When we have accomplished this, we will have solved all of the law and the prophets, and we will have power to do the things these men have done. It is useless to continue to write on this subject in a speculative way. One class has contended that man was created by God and endowed with a conscience, and that he is thereby a responsible being. The evolutionist man is largely an evolved being and as a result there is

continual warfare between his evolved senses and a mysterious intelligence. Resulting from the continual manifestation of the variable, man has never been able to escape from the quicksands that have ultimately engulfed him.

The scientist has asked, and with good reason, why, if man be endowed with a fixed conscience, are so much study and experience necessary. Moreover he admits that if there ever was a time when man did not have knowledge, the power to know must have come from somewhere. Where, he asks, do we get this intelligence? Such questions have long enough been answered in stock phrase. Naming is not explaining. The Greek philosophers chased the symbols of logic to the same point that we have chased the symbols of matter. The Greek philosophers in their search for soul found a soulless logic, and in our search for soul we have found a soulless science. Had it ever occurred to the Greek philosophers to consider the Intelligence that enabled them to reason matter, symbols and conclusions out of existence they would have learned that soul was the very power they were using. So with ourselves, let us consider the intelligence which has enabled us to search so valiantly for soul and perhaps we will find it the Soul for which we have been searching.

When we realize that the human mind is mere wandering phenomena and that our ability to analyze phenomena is the Immaterial Intelligence which constitutes man, and that the dawn of this intelligence on his consciousness constitutes his birth, its continued realization, his growth, and its ultimate constitutes man made in the image and likeness of this Intelligence, we will understand