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AUGUST 1941
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Philosophy
Most problems of this life are prob the world should have military training, as soon as possible. It is always nature's the light of everything that came into his
lems of adjustment. There is nothing that young man should have. By walk way to create strength by demanding re mind; life would be just one glorious
particularly revolting or unfortunate in the ing out of his present environment he is sourcefulness. It is part of the nobler absorption of knowledge. . . far
prospect of a year or so of military train escaping a conditioning which in later life concept of the human family that it has away from the conflicts of civilization,
ing for a young man. The past decade would be sure to cause him endless no right to neglect its young, that every the conflict of war, almost out of reach
has been difficult for parents in their trouble. These indispensible children possible advantage should be given to of the tax collector. Out of a sort of
selection of the way to accomplish 'trans who bolster up home life for the older the generations that follow after, so that detac~ment which consists merely in
ition between school graduatibn and an generation become incredible sufferers in future men may be wiser and nobler droppmg away from the world, arise the
intelligent entry in,to the world of the tragedies of life that await us all. and better than we are. It is quite visionary Shangri-Las of metaphysics.
economics. Only very recently, and due Breaking abruptly with home life and possible so to distort this concept that we Seldom do such purposes achieve 'ac
almost wholly to defense emergency, has family ties is the clearly indicated pre protect these generations out of survival. tual expression. Once in a while some
industry been in any position to absorb ventative for a large percentage of the In no way can compulsory military one tries it, and it only lasts a month.
our school graduates, find a place for world's neuroses and psychological ab training be considered a neglect of the The universal longing of human beings
trained workers, or theoretically trained normalities such as insanity. young; it combines the experience of ex is sometime to be absolutely peaceful.
workers, and in the waiting period and posure to a wide cross-section of human In such peace they would expire of bore
WITHIN our families and in the kind, and the disciplines set up to pro
by the tens of thousands our youngsters social order itself we have been dom; conflict is absolutely necessary to
have had education extended artificially tect an existing social order.
busily developing a collection of super human existence.
sensitive human beings who are just too When the mystically minded indi"
course after another, in order to keep call a regimented service, the youngsters
sensitive to exist here. \ Fondly believed vidual is picked up and yanked into the '
them busy, keep them off the streets.
by those ~ho dote Qn them to be of very most vitally affected are the metaphysic army the prospect he faces ' 'is horrible.
Youtp, subject to the racking pains of ally minded. Prejudices set up an inner
advanced type, belonging perhaps to the All of material life is unbearable; his
that inferiority which is seemingly in conflict, and so do ~alled conscientious
Sixth Root Race or the , Eighth Root thinking . has so far progressed thai it
escapable through adolescence, welcomed
Race, something little less than a cheru beliefs and natural segregative instincts. is no longer possible for him to associate
the escape out of reality offered in ex
bim, the net of the matter is they are Practically all who lean toward the on terms of equality with the unenlight
tension of the years of its formal edu
just plain spoiled children. From constant metaphysical are self-constituted recluses. ened; now his daily contacts are to be
cation. And youth was coming danger
coddling they have been prevented They are generally of the opinion that set among people not one of whom be
ously near to acceptance of protracted
from developing strength, and weakness the world does not understand them, lieves in metaphysics! In high states of
education as an established right-be
is interpreted as sensitivity. When an seldom that they do not understand the agitation, not a few mothers have come
cause the elder generation had blundered
individual cannot stand the shock of life world. They consider themselves stu to me with this problem; and strangely
things . into an e.conomic chaos that
he is sensitive, but sensitivity is not in dents; what they do not consider is, it enough, not one has even asked me if I
provided no place for youth, left no reality weakness, it is a matter of acute prograses the student none whatever to thought it likely the end of things would
openings for newcomers readied to ac ness of function. Humanity's fineness go on year after year living vicariously. be in her son getting shot. The pertur
cept the responsibilities of self-support is not destroyed by. roughing it; there is The average metaphysician'S bation and concern is over the
ing manhood. All that now has been no genuine refinement at all in human idea of Nirvana is to get off contaminating influence .0 f
fixed. Youth has been given both place nature that cannot withstand a pushing IODlCWhere by himself with worldliness upon the sensitivi
and purpose under a system of conscrip around~ The pseudo refinements can his Sanskrit book and study ty of a metaphysical person
tion that knows no preferentials, that generally be accredited to malnutrition ~ stud.y and study. Due to ality.
starts all yp~ng men off equal. On a or somethi~g of that order.
serious note and in proper regulated re mtaTuptJOIlS caused by econ The metaphysician who is
straint, life has begun in a positive orien The stresses and difficulties of living omics he is already forty st'arting out in life so sensi
tation for our youth. in today's world makes it imperative that rounds and rae e s behind tive that he will be contam
An outstanding virtue of compulsory our youth has strength to face problems Leaving the world behind ~ inated by army life is almost
service is its principle of equality for of appalling complexity; no one ever could spend the rest of his bound to get contaminated
all. Its huge impersonality - which in found strength by keeping away from life warking with Sanskrit somewhere else along the line.
certain quarters makes it particularly ob experience. There is nothing to be verse. GlorioU5-for he too Where there is not strength
gained by trying to protect young people could take all the corres of character to resist possible
noxious-is sure to provide . the most
from life. A better notion would be pondence courses in the world contamination in army life for
beneficial experience imaginable to those
perhaps to try to protect life from young at one. time on everything, eat two years or so, things are
who consider themselves 'different.'
people. How to fit the individ~a1 to ~g to all the dieticians, going to be pretty terrible for
Consider the effect on the mother who meditate according to all
dotes on her only son. She worries that he live is the real problem, and to this e~d him in his next 300 or 400
we can observe how nature does l~ study philosophy in incarnations.
will not have the proper diet; she feels
that lack of cultural environment will Throughout the animal kingdom an
unstabilize him, is sure that the officers in all the world of the primitive, the
will not understand him-if anyone in young are set upon thelr . own resources
4 HORIZON Augusl 5
1941 ART MINUS IDEA
It is to his great intellectual benefit from life, on the assumption that by em had in mind, if at all. It is obedience, them more discipline and trammg than
to come face to face with a world that bracing religion he becomes acceptable willing and instantaneous to authority, most of them would otherwise exper
does not believe in metaphysics. With in the light of the Lord. The difference that is the basis for training individ ience in their normal life. Out of world
a distressingly large number of meta between that viewpoint and philosophy uals for philosophy. Philosophy is obe, confusion and conflict has arisen the
physicians the unbeliever is some quaint is practicality. Philosophy's place for imperative need for obedience, and it
dience from beginning to end; its ad
individual who does not believe as he working is right here, in this world, of herent first obeys his teachers, then obeys will result in a new human and racial
does. There is himself, and the sub fering a most indispensible tool for in Law, and finally obeys the Universal strength. Never can we be truly wise
normal. Out of which is produced a telligent living. Philosophy conceives its Law. Philosophy is gained out of obe until we have brought strength to wis
definite type of orthodoxy that is as hide duty as helping people in community diences to required training and disci dom. We are on the way to acquiring
bound and intolerant as any that have existence, in individual life, in business it through obedience which in turn will
graced and disgraced orthodoxy in re pline.
associations, and in every branch of daily So, a year or two or even more under a build up the philosophical faculties of
ligion for ages. None can be more affairs, in the aim to live as normally, man.
top sergeant is not at all a bad start for
certain of the infallibility of their premises intelligently and constructively as pos our young people; it will concentrate for (CONDENSATION FROM A PUBLIC LI!CTUllI!)
than two conflicting schools of meta sible. It can not be applied by the in
physical enthusiasts; they will extend dividual who is overshadowed, spoiled,
even to persecution of each other in and untrained. •
amazing expression of their realization of Among people who today are studying
the brotherhood of man. various branches of so-called occult "If I had two coats, I would
Anything that tends to break this up sciences and mystical philosophy are sell one of them and buy
is good. Close and continued ·contact many who bring to bear on the subject white hyacinths for my soul."
with those who have no metaphysical a most startling and lamentable lack of -Mohammed.
philosophy whatever is even better than ability and trained faculties. They come
good, it is perfect. To be pulled out of to me with a great deal of hope, but are
a completely smug viewpoint, to be
brought definitely face_to face with the
hopeless in lack of training.
These people do not even know how
Art Minus Idea
realities that make up the life of the to study. It constitutes study to them
rest of the world, is an important expe
rience, and one that will never hurt any
if they merely sit down and read a book
for an hour. Haphazard reading takes
C IVILIZATION complicates all is-
sues, and under the intensiveness of
From this great Neo-Platonist we learn
that beauty is essentially perfect order
one engaged in the process of building form with them as a course of study. our modern culture even the simplest in things and of things.
character, which is an eternal process. They simply know nothing of the pro values become involved in a confusion Beauty is a certain virtue present in
Because metaphysicians who have cess of consistent, careful mental appli of opinions. We have lost the ,power to all bodies, in all forms, and in all sub
reached a point beyond mature life lose cation, not even how to begin. These enjoy beauty. stances.
contact with the younger generation, the people have never been disciplined; they The arts have become confused and, Beauty is the true being which ani
metaphysically minded who are coming have never been ordered into any mode for the most part, discordant. They no mates all living creatures. It is the dy
up are not shown the need of working of life. Most of them have had very longer minister to our common need; namic pattern, the esthetic framework
with ideals by confronting life itself. sketchy business experience, or else have rather, they torment us with their asym by which the world is supported.
Any average person today finds out at had their individuality smothered under metries. When false standards are set
fifty that he needs to be a philosopher; a dull routine. Not that the man who Beauty is that peculiar fitness by which
up, the intrinsic fineness of things is perfected natures are distinguished from
he regrets that he did not know this at has been in business for himself has sacrificed. imperfect natures, and perfect forms
twenty-five. But he has had to ex much the better of it, for those who have Generally speaking', modern esthetics
perience facing life, he has had to find been their own masters in an economic from imperfect forms.
is corrupt. Artists are failing art, and,
that life itself is unendurable without sense are less likely to succeed in the for that reason, art is failing man. The human mind, itself composed of
philosophy. It might be thought that study of any art or science than those The first principle of art is beauty. the Divine Nature and imbued at least
philosophy can be taught, and it is; but who have worked for someone else. And The work must be beautiful to be art. subjectively with the principle of es
those whose philosophy is the result of this is because the man who has' worked Technique and s~ill can exist apart . thetics, accepts the proportions of nature
being taught are a sorry lot. The suc for himself as master of himself has been '.as a certain artistic canon, thinking and
from art, but technique and skill are not
cessful ones are those who experience. the servant of hours only, not otherwise art in themselves. They are merely the estimating in terms of this canon. The
pHILOSOPHY is a doctrine of build- has he been subjected to obedience. means by which art is released into tan intellect carries what may be termed a
ing character, not of nourishing weak Plato and Pythagoras and Buddha certain expectancy toward proportion,
gible expression. The beginning and end rhythm, and normalcy. The intellect,
ness. Strength of character comes from taught that obedience is the beginning of art is always beauty.
contact with life and not from running of wisdom. The first thing to learn to therefore, experiences a definite disap
What then, is beauty? pointment if the expectancy be not ful
away. Religion has for centuries sought do in this world is to obey, which is The noblest speculations on this sub
to bring man to a state of peace by teach the last thing anyone wants to do-surely ject are contained in the celebrated filled.
ing him formulas for running away the last thing our younger generation treatise of Plotinus On the Beautiful. We interpret this disappointment as
1941 ART MINUS IDEA 7
6 HORIZON Au,,",
These questions are seldom satisfac: beautiful mood, or reveal a high inspira
displeasure or esthetic offense. If, on God means good and good infers per torily answered in the schools of modern tional quality in the soul of an artist.
the other hand, the expectancy be ful fection in all the virtues. art.
filled, there is a satisfaction which we To the ancients, virtue inferred obe Of course, only a few highly evolved
There is a great division in modl!:m mortals possess the soul power to achieve
interpret as pleasure. dience. "The beginning of wisdom is opinion as to whether or not art should greatly in the arts. Nevertheless beauty
For example, a gently curving line to revere the gods through obedience," serve as a medium for the communica is necessary to every human being. If
presumes the continuance of that curve declared the Platonic doctrine. To be tion of ideas. In other words, should we cannot perform, we must at least
or its development into some logical good, the~efore, is not a platitudinous painting, sculpture, music, or the dance appreciate. No one can be truly normal
form. If a sudden angle be interposed, injunction. It means to fulfill the Law, tell a story, or does its excellence depend unless he has some esthetic appreciation.
there is a definite shock to the esthetic and to fulfill the Law means, according upon its meaninglessness?
sensibilities. A broken arch is a disap to the Socratic philosophers, to do that The love of the beautiful and the ex
pointment. which is necessary and beautiful. The modern tendency in art is to de pression of beauty through some art en
It is true that a broken line is more This brings us to one of the major part from all preachment and interpre riches the life and protects the spiritual
powerful than a continuous one because issues of esthetic philosophy: idealism tation. To the average critic, a picture values of man from the corroding in
of the blow which it administers to the versus realism. is worthless if it tells a story. To the fluences of this present commercial era.
subjective awareness. But strength is The idealist affirms that all things are true esthetician, modern art is therefore Every serious student of the spiritual
not always beauty. The purpose of art essentially good and that divine wisdom, for the most part unsatisfying, because sciences should realize the full import of
is not merely to attract attention or to essentially beautiful in its workings, is it contributes nothing to the intellectual beauty as a ministering force in life.
force comment. The true purpose of art present throughout nature; all life is mov or spiritual values of life. The ancient Egyptians cultivated es
is to satisfy soul hunger. ing towards unity, beauty, and virtue. In a recent exhibition a place of honor thetics in all of its branches as part of
As Socrates has so wise The realist, on the other was awarded to a painting which re the state religion. The Greeks passed
ly observed, a thing must hand, maintains that noth presented a side of beef hanging in a laws prohibiting the construction of
be necessary to be beauti ing is really any better butcher's window. A small canvas of a asymmetrical buildings or the exhibition
ful. Nature has devised than it seems to be. badly drawn orange on a cracked plate or performance of art, drama, or music
each thing to serve some Realism as a doctrine is was also regllJ'ded as exceptional. Fried which did not conform to certain es
purpose. This is the high the most disillusioning of eggs are also regarded as an enchanting thetic standards. The Greeks punished
est form of art. The uni all codes. Realism is es form of still life, with paintings resem with exile and disgrace anyone who wil
verse, which is a perfect tablished upon the testi- . bling Spanish omelettes labeled creative fully perverted any standard of beauty.
example of utility, is also mony of unrefined sense realizations of sunsets. The absence of art or esthetic con
the most beautiful of all perceptions, while ideal Such productions not only lack in sciousness in the average home is a
the structures cognizable ism is established upon a terest, they actually lack technical merit. greater tragedy than may at first appear.
by man. sympathetic and enlight The creators of these so-called pictures This general indifference to beauty is an
In esthetics that which ened recognition of the never have mastered the technique of important factor in the widespread de
is impossible, improbable, ,or deformed true values which lie beneath appear draftsmanship, and for the most part cadence of culture and integrity through
offends. ances. have no fundamental knowledge of col out the so-called civilized world.
In character, that which is ignoble of What then, asks the modern artist, is or. Even these shortcomings might be People who are content to live in a
fends. the highest expression of art? Is it the forgiven, if the artist really possessed an home filled with gaudy cheapness and
That which offends cannot be beauti effort to depict a beauty which is often idea. evidences of bad taste will find that
ful. nor apparent or the attempt to copy There is something glorious in even their personal standards of life and
The grotesque may teach a lesson, but asymmetry which is usually painfully an imperfect effort to do something that thought are infected and corrupted by
it cannot serve as a direct inspiration to evident? is noble and beautiful. We are all im
this unfitting and unlovely atmosphere.
consciousness. This argument brings up still another perfectly striving toward noble and As a homely but literal illustration of
To the philosopher, divinity itself is issue. When considering esthetics as art, beautiful ends. this point, study the average home.
the absolute standard of all perfection. how shall we define an artist? Is he a The greatest shortcoming of the aver The rooms are filled with cheap
One philosopher said, "Only God is creator or a copyist? Is he a depictor or age modern artist is the lack of an idea; chromos in over-gilded frames and in
good." And in another age another an interpreter? Is he an educator or he breaks the ancient Chinese axiom expensive trifles accumulated at holi
philosopher said, "Only God is beauti merely a technician? that nothing should be done without an days and bridge parties. Ten dollars
ful." Should he portray w'hat he sees or adequate reason. There is good modern would be a high price for the total
By the term God we must understand what he feels? If he portrays what he art, but it is comparatively rare due to
collection.
the all-knowing, all-animating spirit of sees, with what kind of eyes does he the present superficial attitudes which Few fine books ever invade the prem
the world by whose wisdom universal see? If he portrays what he feels, with dominate racial culture. ises. Cheap editions, if any, badly print
law is maintained. what kind of a soul does he feel? All modern artists to the contrary ed and in gaudy covers £ill the library
The beauties of nature and of man, Is art merely design, a distribution of notwithstanding, there is no satisfying shelf.
~herefore, are really the beauty of God masses, or a clever combination of light Practically no good sculpture ever
art which does not tell a story, create a
1n nature and God in man. The word and shadow?
. HORIZON i1uKfUI
8 He does not view business the way we
do; of his Asiatic viewpoint we have no
reaches the average private home in mental performance, or in the dance. practical appreciation, little grasp.
America. There is no adequate financial future for
The excuse is, by the time the rent is such talents.
paid, the installments on the frigidaire,
radio, automobile, et cetera, are met, and
No thought is given to the really im
portant issue-the development of the
The Jew Does Not Fit In
the pressing bills of the month taken esthetic nature an,d the personal satisfac
care of, there are no funds left with tion and improvement to he derived THE Jew today wants to know what ficiendy into consideration by either Jew
which to indulge an esthetic urge. The from the ability to perform. or Gentile. For, essentially the Jew is
he has done that has brought upon
truth is, there is no urge. The average individual does not make an Oriental, and as such he has the
him the misfortune of being a stranger in
If a true urge existed it would take a: constructive use of his emotional ener Oriental consciousness, Oriental view
the land of his birth. He is in danger of
precedence over creature comforts, con gies. Nearly all of the evils of human point. Of these, we of the western
. violence irI many countries, faces the cer
veniences, and luxuries. disposition arise from the repression or world have no practical appreciation,
tainty of unhappiness and racial stigma
Any person who can afford the crea misapplication of emotional energy. Un in others. little grasp.
ture comforts such as are common in der esthetic laws and principles instinct I suspect he is mainly guilty of the. If you have ever seen a Mohammedan
the average American home can afford, and appetite transmute into creative im sell rugs, or an Armenian sell rugs, or
crime of being an Asiatic. As such, his
by careful planning, to possess at least pulse and artistic expression. is a viewpoint which he should have watched an Arab barter; if you have
one fine and beautiful example of es The hates, fears, griefs, and worries made more understandable to non-Jew ever tried to buy anything from a real
thetic art to inspire him and to become of mankind bear witness to undirected Japanese, Chinese, or Persian, if you
ish people. Either through inability or
a part of his life. If the man who has and transmuted emotional energy. The unwillingness he has not educated the have ever tried to do business in Irak,
been buying a new car each year will disciplines of esthetics give legitimate ex non-Jew to what his in Northern Africa,
forego this luxury for a season and buy pression to the impulsiveness of human problems really are; TrJpoli or Morocco;
a good painting, a fine piece of sculp nature. too much has been if you have ever tried
ture, a rare book, or some object of beau Truly dedicated to beauty we cannot left to chance, too to do business in Ko
ty which pleases him, he will discover fail to develop a certain inward grace. much to hope and rea, Mongolia or Ti
that the satisfying of the esthetic sense The esthetic arts are the normal and optimism. bet, in the Caucusus
is one of the most practical ways of natural channels f()1' the manifestation and Georgia, in about
of man's complicated emotional reflexes. He has also been
of a transaction. There must be a bar thing we do not believe. All lives and conscious, is Christianity. But it domino culiarly race-conscious people of western
gain. So, when the Main Street mer all people have a powerful contribution ated and wrote history, so Christians civilization. Karma is breaking down
chant flaunts a sign, One-half Price Sale to make to life; one of these days we are have been told how noble they are and this race consciousness to make room for
-and everyone knows his goods are not all going to realize that. that everyone else is wrong. And this, human consciousness, in the only right
half price-he is playing the game, per Agitation over the Jewish religion and after all, is but a normal and human we have-to recognize one humanity,
haps subconsciously, that is played beliefs is currently the concern of only reaction. one life under the sun. Each of us in
throughout all of Asia. a few people. The economic issue is this life is working out karma of some
To be politically in a position to force kind, and I firmly believe that the kar
The Asiatic does not try solely to un the problem, with the Jewish business d6minanc~ upon the rest of the world
dersell his competitor. Working on a man standing accused of inflictit;tg ser ma of the Jew holds a gradual dying
is more important ' than to have racial out of racial persecution of Jews as a
different basis, he is going to ask the ious inroads in the Gentile's industry. superiority in numbers. Antagonism and
customer three times what he expects to The average Occidental is ,not terribly class in the degree and with the rapidity
violent misunderstanding of Oriental that the Jew forgets he is a Jew and
get, and he hopes he will get one-half of intolerant religiously, nor will he be as , views of life that differ from ours con·
what he expects; and if it takes all day long ilS the Old Testament is common remembers that he is a human being.
tinues, although on this earth the white
to transact the business, everyone is hap to both Christianity and Judaism. race is outnumbered two to one. No Races and nations must go ultimately.
py. If you pay his price and it is twice Much more definite is the cleavage basic truth supports the white man's It must be accepted that the Universal
too much, he is heart-broken; he knows with the Jewish problem viewed from standard as the standard for the whole Plan is for one human family, even
you are a fool. He respects you most the social angle. The average person world; it is the world's standard only though in realization it will require an
when you show an appreciation of val has no understanding of ho~ to contact, because he thinks it is. All that would infinite period of time. The ego of the
ues. Instead of going to a store and or become acquainted with, or react Ito be subject to change, should another race individual will meantime undergo a re
picking up something, and saying, "How the Asiatic. There are obnoxious Jews: get strong enough. That can happen. lentless battering. For it is our ego that
much is this?" the Oriental goes in and But there ar~ obnoxious Gentiles. 0b-1 destroys us. It is the ego in Judaism
THE work of humanity is toward one which causes the Jew to say, "I am a
says, "I know the length of this and noxiousness is no respecter of race; un· ' human family. Nature ' insists upon Jew," and it has been his destroyer.
how much wool there is in it. This is pleasant people are to be found every~ it. Everything which exists as separate And the man who says, "I am a Gen
worth so-much." Immediately the mer· where. If we were to exterminate' 'any ness, separation, segregation, or barrier, tile," will ultimately destroy the world
chant's ego goes up. He has come in race because of unpleasant members receives a terrific battering. Nature is of the Gentile. The man who says, "I
contact with a man of affairs, he: is pre there would not be a race left on earth.
pared now to win or lose. determined at all costs to unite the am a Chinese," will ultimately destroy
The hope for complete placidity is not scheme of the Universe and break down
So buyer and seller haggle, and hag to be realized in persecution. China or destroy himself. The indivi
segregation. It is a misfortune that deep- , dual who is race conscious, nation con
gle, argue, hate each 'other and call each The history of the Jews is , common 1y rooted in the history of Judaism is scious, or conscious of any segregational
other names, and loudly despise each knowledge with practically everyone; the principle of segregation; it specific grouping, must finally go down. Hu
other's relatives for about nine' genera from the earliest period of his historical ally l>ears upon today's situation and the
tions both ways. Final,ly, but only after manity , is es~entiall y one life, one race,
existence the Jew has been the victim present ' plight of the Jews.
long argument, arbitration; arm in arm one purpose, and one destiny. Anything '
of minority persecution. Is this because It is not within the desire of the av that tries to break that up, will be
they go to the nearest coffee house and he has never been an empire builder
settle down to a nice cup of coffee so erage Jew or the Gentile to break apart broken itself.
has never been in a position to domino humanity. But as long as violent racial
thick you can scarcely stir it, and now ate any political or social order?', From I believe that race consciousness is all
they are the best of friends. ideology exists, as long as race conscious too true of the Gentile, and that the strug
the time of the shepherd kings on down, , hess remains, there will be for and
J EWS exist within our midst as a group
of people who are essentially Oriental.
They do not look particularly Asiatic,
the position of the Jew in world history
has never been one of great temporal
against. The karma of the individual is
built up around his own ego. The sense
gle Christianity is now making to main
tain itself against the dictatorship for a
changed and new world order has its
power, with the exception of a short
and since they do not speak an Oriental of I, the desire for I to dominate, to be cause in an 'egotism that has long an
period in biblical times. And yet, Jew.
language or something of the kind, we the center of life and the world, for me tagonized the rest of the world's peoples.
ish tradition for a long tipte has assumed
do not recognize for them a series of mo· and 'mine to rule, is something that will World war and the distress of nations
a certain sanctity for the Jewish race as
tivations expressing a fundamental psy custodians of the old Mosaic Law. take hundreds of cycles of lives to de may destroy progress for ten, 'fifteen, or
chological difference. We are trained in The trouble with that is, Christianity stroy in human consciousness. The sense twenty-five years. But it will have no
intolerance, and if they disagree with us did the same thing exactly. Christianity of the world moving abo).!t me, the in· effect upon permanent values, upon the
we do not know what to do correctively reaching a majority position, became tense awareness of I which makes us say, motion of nations. The normal condi·
about it. If they do things differently dictatorial in domination; its beliefs be "I am a Presbyterian," before we say, "I tion is for a coordinated social order to
from the way we do them, we bristle with came the basis of normalcy. The Jew, am a human ' being," is that false ego function together , in perfect harmony.
belligerency. Persecution of the Jew would remaining a minority, had his orthodoxy which sees small things first and large Numerous ra,ces working together, but
disappear under a changed viewpoint; rated a form of infidel ism. The record things not 'at all, and is the enemy. only one life.
there would be no more reason for it shows that of all the religions on earth Through ' self-chosen activities of past
(CoNDENSATION FROM A PtmLlC LECTO'RL
than to stigmatize the whole Hindu the religion most active in persecution, centuries and ,through transplanted en· Sugg~sted ,.~adi"g: THE SACRED MAGIC
race as wrong because they believe some the most intolerant, hidebound and sect vironment, the Jews have been the pe- OF nil! QABBALAH. )
the Vatican working on astrology. This never been of interest to the mentally
attitude of religion of openminded in unsound. During the last several thou
vestigation is in striking contrast to the sand years of recorded history, astrology
Suspects and Aspects of stand in condemnation taken by the has appealed principally to the educated
men of science who hold positions of and intelligent .classes. It has been studi
Astrology responsibility in our college astronomical ed by the learned and patronized by
observatories. the great. It would be only fair to accept
In recent months, astrology has been that thinking people are in a position
attacked through a series of articles pre to estimate the accuracy of predictions
pared by scientific groups and individ made to them. When we know some
uals scientifically minded. Typical of thing to be true through personal ex
these attacks and the attitude they perience, the contrary opinions of even
represent are the opinions of Dr. John the greatest scholars have little weight.
Q. Stewart, of the Department of The reason why neither persecution nor
Astronomy of Princeton, and Dr. Bart legislation has been able to destroy as
J. Bok, Associate Professor of Astronomy trology is the accuracy of its findings.
of the Harvard College Observatory. The testimony of experience does not
These gentlemen are determined to go down before attacks by those who
THE modern stu
of most of the cases rescue a delinquent world from the are evidently without experience.
dent of astrolo evils ' of horoscopy. They have assembled The astronomers' next dilemma is no
gy is confronted with which come to him
a number of choice observations and re more difficult than the first. These
a most difficult situ for advice. He often
marks which have been given consider astronomers insist that the planets are
ation. By his own preserves a file -of
able national publicity. far too distant for their rays to trouble
researches and experi horoscopes and he
A number of astrologers feel that Dr. worldly affairs. As one of them so
mentations he has conscientiously checks
Stewart and Dr. Bok have been undis elegantly states it: "If we are to believe
proven to himself his predictions against
criminating, if not incorrect, in some of that the influence of a mere mass of
the events which take
that astrology actually w 0 r k s. By place. In the course of years he ac their conclusions. These gentlemen matter affects human character, then
the systematic application of the basic cumulates abundant proof that the laws have become far more heated than the certainly the Empire State building
rules of the art he can, and does, make of astrology, if intelligently applied, can sober impersonality of science should would have vastly more effect on the
accurate predictions of events to come- indicate the course of human events. By allow. In the cause of fairness, there people of New York than would a planet
events over which he has no possible the checking method he also learns to fore, let us examine some of their find millions of miles away."
control. The frequency with which his correct mistakes of his own judgment, ings and see if they have presented The astrologer meets this sage observa
predictions are fulfilled rules out the discovering why in some cases his pre their case in a maner appropriate with tion with what seems to me to be a
possibility of coincidence. dictions miscarry.
the dignity and the thoroughness of the very reasonable contention. The universe
In some research carried on recently,
learned. is one vital organization, all the parts of
The astrologer, having no feud with The essence of the displeasure of these which are related to each other and in
a friend of mine---« scientifically-trained science, does not understand why the
practicing psychologist in good standing scientific world is so critical of his en~ scientific gentlemen-and, for that mat dispensable to the complete economy of
in his profession and among his asso deavors. The average astrologer is not ter, the usual a r gum e n t s
ciates-became interested in the use of dishonest; he believes firmly and sin against astrology - fall into
astrology. He brought me the birth data cerely in the importance of his art, and traditional pattern. They can
of a number of his more difficult prob applies to himself the same rules which therefdre be considered in the
lem cases. From the data alone the' he uses with his clients. I know many order of their frequency and
temperaments and difficulties of the enthusiastic astrologers. They are de answered as simply and dir
various patients were described with voted to the subject and are trying con ectly as possible. Dr. Bok's
approximately eighty-five per cent of ac stantly to increase their ability and their first perplexity seems to be
curacy. The psychologist was generous knowledge. that it is beyond his under
e~ough to say that astrology accom standing how apparently in
Not so long ago an encyclic was pub telligent persons can possibly
plIshed in from fifteen to thirty minutes
lished permitting all Catholics to study believe that the planets can af
results which required from six to eight
astrology. A friend of mine who has fect human life. Dr. Stewart
weeks using the technique of psychology.
dependable knowledge of matters in concurs.
The serious astrologer keeps records
Rome says there are ninety priests in The a n s w e r is by no
means difficult. The deeper
12
aspects of astrology have
14 HORIZON AU611S1 15
1941 SUSPECTS AND ASPECTS OF ASTROLOG,Y
existence. It was Kepler who pointed to the conclusion that most human be
ings are very much alike. The man or of learning results in a desire to search Professor Dokes believe in astrology? He
out that astrological influence results
everywhere for truth and fact .. Possibly does! Ergo, he is no scientist.
from the patterns set up in spa~e ~y woman who is truly individual is the
it is our free schools and mcreased Chatting one day with an astronomer,
the motions of the heavenly bodJes m exception rather than the rule. The
opportunity for a broader education that I remarked that Isaac Newton once re
reference to each other. These patterns majority are dominated by almost iden
has brought to some in the nation a buked Dr. Halley, who had a comet
result in what the astrologer terms as tical impulses, characteristics and con
victions. There is nothing to prove that realization that astrology is necessary for named after him, for making a rather
pects. Kepler wrote at considerable flippant remark about astrology. New
a number of separate individuals born intelligent purposed living.
length on the nature of these aspects,
Is it so important whether or not ton, who was a very gentle soul, turned
which constitute the elements of a sidereal at approximately the same time would
modern scientists have believed in as his big, soulful blue eyes on Halley and
chemistry. The distance between a not have lives that closely parallel
trology? Is a fact more true because remarked softly: "I have studied the
planet and the earth does not necessarily each other, at least in the more import
ant events. many disbelieve it? Nearly every great subject, and Dr. Halley, you have not."
prevent subtle rays from reaching the
truth that has been given to mankind My astronomer friend looked pained
earth's atmosphere. What are cosmic If many are born every hour, many
was denied for centuries by the learned beyond expression. The anecdote crushed
rays? How completely has science chart also die every hour. For the most part,
ed the magnetic sphere of the world? before it won acceptance. Pioneers in him. But after several moments of de
life is a routine experience, falling into
every field of endeavor have been per pressed silence, he brightened perceptibly.
Is any man in a position to deny that traditional patterns and all too often
secuted by the nearly wise. No one "Oh, yes," and now he positively
the various bodies in space may be bound into traditional disasters. Astrology has
believed that Fulton's steamboat would beamed, "Newton did lose his mind in
together by energies as yet unknown or, kept records of several authentic cases
run. The 'well informed' and those of his old age, didn't he?"
at least, inadequately understood? of persons born close together in time
'weighty reputation' gathered to witness The ancient problem relating to the
Again, the astrologer knows by ex and place. The results of these records
Fulton's Folly and ridicule it. When hen-and-the-egg and the matter of their
perience that some subtle energy dO~J would likely astonish even Professor Bok
the boat did go, what was the result? priority also finds a parallel in the astro
connect the planets with the earth. He and Professor Stewart. I gather from
Those not abounding in common sense logical-astronomical controversy. Science,
may not be able to explain his findings their writings that these learned astrono
were angry not at themselves but at usually indifferent to such problems as
in the approved terminology of science, mers did not happen upon such reports
Fulton, irate because he had proved to involve the antiquity of knowledge, now
but, given a fair opportunity, he can when compiling their displeasure into
printed form. them that they were wrong. solemnly affirms that astronomy came
demonstrate the truth of his theory.
It has been wisely observed that the first, astrology was a sort of deluded af
The remarks about the Empire State Incidentally, it is not so easy to secure superstitions of one age are the sober ter-thought. Dr. Bok makes quite a
building a,re a bit infantile. The only records of two 'persons born in the same scientific realities of the next. I believe point of this.
subtle emanations which have been ob locality within a few moments of each the time will come when what Francis To my mind, all aspects of the hen
served in this connection emanate from other. Even large hospitals are unable Bacon called astrologia sana, or sane as and-egg controversy are barren of pro
the magnetic AI Smith. Plato might be to furnish such information. The astrol trology, will be taught in those previous ductive results. One can say: If astron
used to challenge the Empire State oger insists that four minutes in time ly referred to public schools. omy came first, then astrology bears
building analogy. According to the and fifteen miles in distance can ma I have too my doubts about the last witness to a higher degree of civilization.
Greeks, all forms, whether they are terially affect a birth data. With this sentence of the quotation, that no recog Or, the reasoning shifted into reverse:
natural or man-made, do emanate a sub qualification, which is universally ac nized scientist in the last three hundred If astrology came first, then astronomy
tle influence according to their mass and knowledged by s e rio u s astrologers, years has believed in astrology. It is may have put in its appearance in those
proportion. Pythagoras observed that science's objection is considerably modi more likely that the great German ori decadent ages when knowledge fell into
architectural asymmetry could demoral fied. entalist, Professor Max Muller, came near materiality and lost the name of action.
ize a community or a nation. Another traditional argument which er to the fact when he declared that, to The fact is, astrology has flourished
A favorite objection raised against sums up scientific feeling can be quoted his own personal knowledge, many men among all the great civilizations of the
astrology advances what is supposed to from a recent article: "The only feeling of the deepest scientific training believed world, enjoyed its greatest preferment
be a real poser: Thousands of people scientists have about astrology is one of in astrology but did not dare to publicly during the most enlightened of times.
are born every day at the same hour disgust, that in a nation of free schools avow their interest, because it would Professor Richard Proctor, a scientist of
and yet no two of these people have the such hocus-pocus should have so many hazard their scientific standing with in some reputation, grudgingly observed
same characters and abilities, or achieve believers. During the last three hundred tolerant contemporaries. An examina that no nation ever reached a high de
equal success in life. years, not one recognized scientist has tion of Dr. Muller's scientific status will gree of civilization without astrology.
The difficulty in answering this ob believed in astrology." convince the most uninformed that he Dr. Stewart administers what he hopes
jection is that the elements are quite There is no answer for a scientific was held in high esteem by hundreds will prove to be the coup d~ grac~. His
abstract. I cannot but wonder how or feeling of disgust. But there is remedy of learned societies all over the world. wording can hardly be regarded as
when it has been scientifically proven in a suggestion made centuries ago by It has been my sad observation that the subtle. "It is difficult," he says, "to
t~at. h.uman beings are so astonishingly a very learned man: We dislike most modern scientist determines, by a very answer scientifically because the astrolo
dlsslIIular that no two are alike. Per what we understand least. arbitrary formula, whom he will ac gers have no scientific evidence to ex-
~onal observation over a number of years A little learning may incline the mind knowledge as a recognized scientist. amine." .
lQ a rather wide public field has led me to an excess of displeasure, but greatness The formula works like this: Does It is my understanding that the pur
16 HORIZON August Some day we will know that 25,000 years ago
on this earth dwelt human beings of great culture
pose of science is not only to examine Dr. Bok thus ·summarizes Kepler's who governed according to the laws of rational democracies
evidence but also to accumulate it. Scien indigence and motives: "Two years be
tific · expeditions travel to all corners of fore his death, when his salary was three ~\
the world to dig up subject matter for years in arrears, he took to drawing up
somber reflection. How does it happen, horoscopes for the 'astrologer-soldier' Atlantis: and the Origins
then, that these learned gentlemen have
never seriously explored the jungle of
Wallenstein as a means of supporting
himself and · his dependents." It should
(I of Civilization
astrological lore? According to textbooks be incredible even to a mind in a science
which I studied in my youth, the process rut that Kepler merely for the sake of IN a world troubled constantly, soft 1and
of thinking from conclusions went out money would practice seriously an , art with imminent prob crumpling up against
of favor with the Dark Ages. Instead which outraged his integrity and com lems, full fascination hard land; and this
of affirming that astrology is a baseless mon sense. And was it necessary for remains in the theme change will some day
delusion, and then being content merely Kepler to write a book on the subject? of t,he sunken conti result in the loss of .the
to reaffirm this affirmation, might it not which throughout the text bespeaks a nent of Atlantis. Atlan continent we know and .
be better to make an adequate unpre serious interest together with long study tis is still a word to evolve for our world
judiced survey of the entire matter? and proficiency. Why should the modern conjure with, and it is other continents. The
The astrologer feels that he is a victim astronomer infer this discreditable action not beca use people rate of change is slow,
of unfairness. He has been persecuted to one of the world's greatest thinkers? have read Plato; the map readjustments
for centuries, but where is the evidence How much more likely it is that Keplet word seems to have k would not be apparent
to indicate that astrology has actually was both an astronomer and an astrolo connotation strange and to people in one life
been disproved by any qualified body of ger, and quite sincere in his devotion to mysterious, conveying time; but there are
scientific men? There is none. both subjects. Kepler was known to to man y individuals sym ptoms to be ob-
Meanwhile, Dr. Bok is visibly af have said that years of research and something of what they served, and one ·of these
fected by the contaminating infiuence thought had forced his unwilling ac were a part of, in some past time. is climatic change. It is obvious that
of astrology not only '1 upon the young, ceptance of the truth of astrology. But many think of Atlantis incorrect the temperature of various localities is
but also upon the whole body of mod The present revival of anti-astrological ly. It was not a continent, but a distri changing; New England no longer has
ern society. He decries the numbers of
newspapers that print daily astrological
columns, bemoans the fact that astro
agitation has brought together some
strange bed-fellows. Among those named
as presenting a united front against this
{I
bution of land. It was the whole map
in a different pattern from the pattern
it is in today. The distribution lay in
the snowbound winters of 50 years ago,
New York now has snow flurries in the
months when in an earlier period the
loathsome superstition are the committee \~
logical magazines not only have a wide America, in Africa, Asia, and China, all countryside was solidly snowed under.
circulation but actually are disp~ayed on of the Boston and Cambridge Branch of over the earth-Atlantis was not a par We know too that there is dry land to
newsstands right alongside respectable the American Association of Scientific ticular area in one place on the earth's day in areas in Texas which in the 16th
publications! As a sort of Exhibit A, he Workers, under the chairman of Pro surface. Atlantean remains may be and 17th centuries were under the waters
publishes a photograph showing Evan fessor B. J. Bok; the Society of American found anywhere; Atlantis was a period of the Gulf of Mexico. We have other
geline Adams' textbook prominently dis Magicians; the Society for Psychological not a place. areas which have been above water since
played on the book table where Harvard Study of Social Issues; Good House Atlantis disappeared gradually; the 1900 B. C., others which were under
students buy their literature, and it's keeping Magazine, and the inevitable geodetic and geographic changes which water for billions of years. There are
right alongside the Life of Louis Pasteur/ and irrepressible Dr. Fishbe,n, of the caused some areas to sink and others to seashells on the top of Mt. Blanc, other
Evidently he fears that this proximity of American Medical Association I Surely rise occupied a period of millions q£ seashells on the highest point reached on
the . saqed and profane will contribute this is the first time that this impressive years. Even as what we call the Aryans the Himalaya Mountains.
to the delinquence of Harvard under accumulation ever united its resources. of out modern world came out of a dis The search for Atlantis is not solely
graduates. I noticed something, hoW' In spite of the accumulated weight of tribution, involving all lands from South a search under the ocean, nor is it con
opinion represented by all this learning, fined to the great areas in China and
)
ever, that Dr. Bok appallingly failed to America to Africa and from Europe to
mention, in the one-pointed focus of his the serious student of astrology is not China, so was Atla-:-tis an arrangement India and certain parts of Europe; here
scholarly mind. The Life of Pasteur is profoundly impressed. He is so accus of a continent-.part of an arrangement in our own country we can find Atlan
framed on the other side with what tomed to opposition that he will remain . that is still changing, that will continue tis. It should be thought of as a great
is indicated by the book jacket to be an unaffected by the intolerance of those to change until the end of the earth. kingdom or empire, a world power that
unabridged life of one of the world's about him. Knowing the truth which he There will never be a time of change traded and dealt with other nations.
most ribald gentry, Benvenuto Cellini I has discovered by the practice of his art, ceasing. The mercantile of the age was not so
In my lay mind arises the suspicion that he will continue to explore the mysteries Geography's modifying force has been inferior to our own, ships, though pow
the affairs of Cellini might complicate of his "moral sphere." He is satisfied the rotation of the earth cn its axes, ered differently, journeyed to the most
college life rather more than the com that in the fullness of time astrology will which causes areas of land to move distant areas, despite beliefs to the con
fortable grandmotherly essays of Evan come finally to · universal · acceptance.
geline Adams. (WRITTEN SPECIALLY POR HORIZON) 17
18 HORIZON 1941 ATLANTIS AND CIVILIZATION 19
August
trary. That no one knew' the earth was the Atlantic Ocean cutting up no end, It was a city architecturally planned, and India got them. Out of vacuums in his
round up to the time of Columbus is one with resultant floods in Europe and in one of the most inaccessible areas in tory nations emerge with their knowl
of the myths of history-like the story of South America and Africa. The Lisbon Africa. There is no possible doubt that edge thoroughly established.
Columbus making the egg stand on end. earthquake of 1755 caused the waves to it is an At!antean city. When was the curtain drawn across
Col umbus in fact had opportunity to go around the world eleven times before The Atlantis records of Central Africa the origin of ancient nations--was it
read that our world was round, and he they died out, and Lisbon's cataclysm we now know are not feats of memory 10,000 B. C.? Beyond this there is no
might have read of its diameter and was nothing compared to the sinking 'of carried along by aborigines but are the history. Are we to conceive all civili
circumference. He may not have, but the Island of Poseidon. It appears that concern of an elaborate priesthood, (one zations emerging with their knowledge
he could have. Nor was the coming of there was some realization of the im with which our missionaries have had at approximately the same time, all ready
the Vikings to America the beginning pending catastrophe for a large part of little success), a priesthood that celebrates to become great civilized powers? It is
of the exploration of the New World. the Atlantis population had left the mystical rites, has a profound knowledge like picking up an adult without a child
We know the Greeks were here long Island of Poseidon and gone to the con of magic and is capable of producing hood, coming out of nowhere ready to
before them and sailed up the St. Law tinental mainland. The mainlanders, mysterious phenomena that every ex vote; without family to trace, nor place
rence River, according to Plutarch; they continuing to thrive, interest us, for plorer confronts and every scientist de- to come from, how can he be accepted
navigated the northern coast of New they have survived up to the present nies--in denials that have nothing to do just emerging and saying with a theatri
England, penetrated inland as far as the time. As an instance, the populating of with the elements of the fact. cal bow, "Here I am!" Something about
Great Lakes, . and the record of their America has always been a great scien No utterly pnmItlve people could it doesn't sound right.
discovery of this continent was estab tific riddle. Mongolians are supposed to evolve this knowledge. It was derived We establish first thinking man at a
lished in Greece 1,500 years prior to have come across from Asia by the Ber from somewhere; it had to come from period of gnawing at a bone and throw
Columbus's famed visit. ing Strait and into British Columbia a legitimate origin. Interestingly, it is ing a stone ax. Not so long after, man
As to the lost continent of Atlantis and down through the United States to magic and shamanism identical with that wrote the classics. Where is the sense
and its approximate location, the Chinese Central and South America. This theory of the American Indian. It is a fair as to that, and where did the transition
knew' of it and the Greeks and the Hin of an enormous migration has in it little sumption that at some take place? Back 25,000
dus. Fiji Islanders, acknowledging that of significance or sense. Of great im remote period there was W hat of the Possibilitv that years ago, even 50,000
they participated in the catastrophe, have port, on the other hand, is the signifi a wide distribution of Neanderthal man was mere- years ago, there were
preserved a complete record of the de cance to be attached to uncovery of rem knowledge, since hope- Iv one of the Primitive peo great artists - their
struction of Atlantis. The Indians of nants of Atlantis in areas not generally lessly lost in the mys pies sharinI! the earth with jumping elephants on
Madagascar have their stories of the supposed to contain these remnants.
'/
teries of time. more hiI!hlv evolved con cave walls would para-
cataclysms and changes which produced California, from San Francisco south This knowledge was temporary races? lyze the modern artist.
the Atlantean deluge, and records have and into Mexico, is an area which was not original; it was car They could not have
been preserved among the American In up during the Adantean Period. Hun ried from somewhere else. But where been barbarians. Yet when we pick
dians. Because the cataclysm affected dreds of discoveries of very ancient re are the records? If it was only 15,000 them up again, they are killing masto
an enormous area, all peoples of antiq mains have been uncovered in careful years ago, or less, when the great At dons with stones. Once more they dis
uity knew of it. excavations that have extended from lantean Continent sank, why not more appear, to come out as philosophers such
Certainly in some mysterious .way this California to Arizona and New Mexico. elaborate literary remains? R e cor d s as Plato and Aristotle.
cataclysm took place. In efforts and Africa, another area up during the should have been uncovered sufficient You would think that there would be
attempts made to explain the relation Adantean Period, has remained one of and explicit on the history of these an one period in the life of a people that
ship between the geological discoveries the most mysterious continents 'on earth. cient peoples. Why, without exception, would be remembered, and that is the
of modern science and the continental Explorers fly over it and go across it, do ancient civilized nations r~t~r~ into a period of discovery. Somewhere in the
distribution according to the Oriental but little has been done in scientific ex darkness to emerge already CIVIlized but interval between Stone Age and Mod
mystic; the one thing determined with ploration of African records which go leaving no record? Egypt emerged civil ems, man discovered two times two
reasonable certainty i~ that the last back to inconceiyable antiquity. The ized 7,000 years ago; no one has any makes four. As a discovery, it should
glacial sweep was later than . the Adan African we hear about is a native danc records of how Egypt came to be great. have been preserved; but it isn't.
tean continent-land distribution was ing with his spear and covering shield, ~ot even the record of where the Egyp The origin of writing, the evolution
largely in its present shape in the Gla but in Central Africa only a few years tian language evolved could be found by of ideographic pictures is lost.
cial Period-but the Island of Poseidon ago two explorers discovered what they the great Egyptian authority, Maspero. The origin of language is lost. We
had not then sunk. Poseidon, almost as believed to be the remains of a great The great civilization of Egypt stands, do not know where grammar comes in.
large as Australia, sank in a single night, city. This city would compare favorably but no one knows where it came from. We have Egyptian hieroglyphs, then
'~ There is no record of a primitive Egypt. grammar-some jump, with a people
according to the old myths, carrying in size with some of the ancient cities
with it 60,000,000 people, and this was of Central America; it must have had The same for Greece. Greece emerges suddenly become very intelligent.
the end of the Adantean Continent. a population of two or three millions.
"
I already capable of philosophy and art, The only evidence tha~ we have that
The sinking of that area which result This was no mass of native huts, but without record of a barbaric period. In this knowledge was carned from some
ed in our present land distribution must a great city of carved stone, a city that dia emerges historically with a language, where else is in lege~ds and ~yths that
have caused terrific ocean agitati.on, could not have been built by aborigines. with sacred books. No one knows where do not calculate in time of thmgs hap
20 HORIZON August
Ahout on~-thi1'd of Am~icans are without
m~dical attention; a moral issue
pening, but tell of the Fathers who came clude we worshipped that, then ,come
from far across the water with teach upon a mummy case--wdl, we were
ings and wisdom. So, what of the pos either Egyptians or very rern;ukable
people, perhaps both.
sibility that while the Neanderthal man
was wandering around and the Heidel The whimsy is not far off from the Ten Dollars for Health
berg jaw still had its owner-through story of exploration in the Near East.
the period of long heads, flat heads, and Exploring archeologists found nine cit ~
square heads-that these represented ies;' one underneath another, and stopped
merely the primitive races, abiding as digging only because funds gave out.
contemporaries of more highly evolved There might be fifteen cities underneath
people? That nations were civilized by these! On a day when we will scratch
outsiders, and that is the reason we can deeper, we will not be satisfied with the
not trace civilization in them, seems pos tombs of Egyptian kings. The search
sible and reasonable. downwa~d will be for a sub 7strata of a
Not so long ago two skulls were dis high civilization, and the discovery that
covered. They were over a million while a large part of the ancient world
years old. Instead of being flat heads, as was primitive (which is true also of
Mongolians are, the brain capacity is . as today) a great civilization existed with ically best for humanity. One side
peoples who disappeared from this earth echoes the standpat stuff of entrenched
good as we have today. That was a
25,000 or 50,000 years ago. We are position and tradition-nothing should
blow. Science has supposed skulls of
going to find out just that; for it is the be changed, for it might get worse. In
that period to be very large in front and
only reasonable explanation to the 'origin adoption of the attitude of the progres
small behind-organized sold y for grind
of our arts and sciences. sives, the other side argues that if you
ing food between jaws set like a bear
never do anything, conditions anyhow
trap. But here were two skulls, delicately
formed, highly evolved, and they were
We may find what we seek in our
own Southwest. Maybe in Mesopotamia.
A BOUT medical care of Americans, will change, with the possibility of get
opinion splits into wide divergence, ting better, and then it'll be you that'll
a million years old. That was an em Maybe we will have to dredge for it un with most of the opinion being either be out of step. To the standpatters all
barrassment. According to scientific der the ocean. But we are going to find based upon hearsay or grounded in ad progressives are radicals, and to the pro
rules, no one had much to say about it. it; it is necessary to find it. It is no vantage. As with many great and vital gressives all standpatters are mummified.
A good general rule is, when you do longer a hypothesis; it is necessary. That
questions, the people who sincerely be On which basis we try to run things
not know anything keep quiet. The which is necessary will be manifested.
lieve they have an opinion are usually mostly conversationally.
scientific rule is, keep it quiet. Skulls And then we will know that 25,000
falling back on the solidly expressed People in the main are non-intelli
of highly ,evolved peoples, one million years ago on this earth dwelt human
opinion of some one else. gently honest, if such a thing can be.
years old, pose a problem, possible en beings who could read and write, build
Organized groups do most of the They are honest, let's say, but not to
trance any day into a new period of cities, teach 'the sciences, tame and train
thinking for the populace at large. In blame for it. On any question of what
archeology . animals for their use, ·build great monu
a natural antipathy to thinking, which is good for humanity they are likely to
No~ every answer to the problem lines ments, write books, and govern accord
is hard work, practically every person have an opinion, but seldom with it any
up simple, obvious and straight. Sup ing to the laws of rational democracies.
depends upon some organization to do realization that what they violently de
pose a couple of millions of years from And the evidence we will find ' will his thinking for him. The individual fend and believe to be a personally ar
now someone digs up Los Angeles-pre justify all the legends and traditions seldom knows where he gets his so-called rived at conclusion is but opinion con
suming it is not the capital of the world which have come down to us with the facts; along with opinions, they are ab jured up for them and effectively dis
at that moment-and the digging hap gods who dwelt upon the earth ~ an sorbed either through the columns of a tributed. Now, irrespective of what side
pens to strike into the precise location cient times. Science is in for more newspaper habitually read, or are jam is taken, one fact cannot be denied and
of the Southwest Museum, turning up a headaches such as the skeletons found of med into consciousness by the insistent on it should begin all discussions of the
collection of bones belonging to 'the humans 20 feet tall, which because not radio. This reduces individual opinion nation's medical problem. The fact is:
creatures of the lava pits. They might understood is a discovery which has to something largely made up out of About one-third of the American people
decide we of today were contemporary been hushed up. And there will be ,the hearSay, or propaganda, which is organ are without medical attention.
with the saw-tooth tiger. The skeleton matter of finding that all the old leg ized hearsay. Obviously not a right condition, it has
of a monkey might cause them to in ends and traditions are based on history, . Not one person in a thousand is in become a moral issue w!th a vast num
quire what kind of people were we? that nothing is counterfeited of which any way qualified to have an opinion ber of medical men. Someone is to
Should they dig up a billboard and con there has not been an original. on matters medical, but always some blame, and there are those who think
where the discussion goes on, with ar that the cudgels should be taken up by
(CoNDENSATION FROM A PUBLIC LECTURE. gument pro and con as to what's med the medical profession itself when a
Suggested reading: ATLANTIS: AN INTERFIIl!TA nON; THE MYSTERY OF ELECTRICITY)
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22 HORIZON A.ugust
1941 TEN DOLLARS FOR HEALTH 23
large, sector of 4umanity is prevented by If the problem of health is definitely free' the wealthy of course can have all
the physician's, consider what he can do service to suffering humanity. If they
economic necessity from participating in the 'medical attention they want, but to can gain a public consciousness that most
the advantages and privileges of modem and what he can not. A doctor is a man the mass of humanity that lives on a
trained and dedicated by traditions and of the evils inherent to medical science
science, blocked from their share of limited income the wherewithal of med are rooted in economics, the physicians
what we are ' pleased to call progress. re-dedicated by his Hippocratic oath that ical attention must remain the ever un
he will serve the sick, that he will pre who believe in themselves will find that
Various communities are seeking the provided item in the family budget be a whole world of people believe in them.
serve the ethics of his profession. He
way to help people who are sick, ac
knowledging sickness to be a by-product still takes the Oath-they are beginning
cause of its year to year dollars spread
being unpredictible.
I T is none too well known of the aver
of the world we live in. As surely as to change it in places-and so he binds age physician that while he has the
himself to the same declaration insti A newspaper not 1011g ago had a car inclination, he has not the power nor
we a~e here, we will be sick; some of toon about a: new kind of telephone you
us continuously, some many times; some tuted for the physicians of "I Ancient the time to resist the influence brought
Greece, twenty-three centuries ago. As did not have to dial. You lifted up the to bear upon medicine by the pharma
only once, and then fatally. It stares us receiver and told the operator the num
stated by Paracelsus, one of the greatest ceutical houses in their control of the
in the face that there are millions of ber wanted. It suggests the possible
people, and the number constantly in chemists of all times, the purpose of making and sale of drugs. The problem
medicine is ~~ heal, and not take money. timeliness of re-stating a new kind of of breaking up the Citadel is not an easy
creases, who are in need of medical treat doctor . We see him heading in his
Fine, if workable. It costs money to be one either, for it has almost unlimited
ment, surgery, dentistry and optometry, jalopy to wherever it is anyone is sick,
come a doctor. Building up a practice resources and, in an enormous combine,
and they cannot secure it. Surely they sleeping in the spare room where the the powerful financial backing of the
are not to remain in suffering, victims requires spending years and money. It is
costly to carry on , the books the sixty dead are laid out, shaking pins and pen great medical supply houses. American
under an economic system for which nies qut of the children's throats be medicine is dominated by one of the
they have no responsibility. Within the percent who never pay doctor's bills.
Patients expect time-consuming profes twixt times of serving as father con greatest monopolies ever known. It has
economic condition lies the real problem. fessor, translator and linguist. Annual established itself as absolute dictator of
What the answer is, is not so evident. sional attention, the most up-to-date
equipment. In the ~heme of the doctor's earni~gs for him $600 cash and the bal what is right and wrong. I have talked
Disputing the path of adjustment to economics, the thing reaches an impasse. ance in farm produce and the product to a great number of physicians, and
humanitarian progress are two factions. of calloused hands in a barter of one everyone has had his dream. He knows
The standpat bloc is headed up by cer MOST young doctors starting out are kind of skill exchanged for another, and the way things ought to be done, and he
tain members of the American Medical idealistic, admirably honest. Almost never for a moment has he the feeling knows that he can't give his patient
Association, which has numerous auxil invariably they are disillusioned by con that his medical education was time even adequate consideration under the
iaries all over the nation. The other fac tact with the older school; nor can the op wasted, nor is he at all convinced that ' restrictions of scope imposed upon him.
tion, the ~pposition, progressive, is made timism of the proverbial archangel which , the humanitarian primitive destroys its
up largely from a group of men emerg they start out with, long survive the Upon the dissolving of all monopolies
adherents, results in economic break depends the survival of our social order.
ing out of the same association, men disillusionment that comes in unselfed down.
service to hu~an beings in the rri'ass. It doesn't make any' difference whether
who believe in cooperative medicine Today's visit from the city doctor is
Humanity as a whole is always good. the combine affects food, aluminum,
if a man can't pay his doctor bill, let price-tagged SI5-for coming in the housing, . or medicine, a combination
him paint the building; let him get what But the individual human you meet al door, giving a look" and calling an am
ways has something · the matter with that exists for purposes of control and
he needs for what he knows. bulance. In a hospital the ailing one restraint is illegal. Our social system
The px:inciple here is sound. But to him. Humanity as a whole can be loved will be quiet and comfortable, and not
with gr~at [devotion, but break humanity prohibits a minority employed to exploit
make it widely operable requires some get well too quickly. Whatever it is a majority. This democratic country, as
form of cooperative organization. Start down into individual human beings, and that is the matter with you, you are
the dilemma arrives once expressed by a someone has said, is a free country
something along that line and imme better off in a nice quiet room. Its cost almost. In a free country, when you in
diately you run into opposition; enor friend of mine: "I love humanity but I about equals rental of the bridal suite
hate individuals." terfere with a monopoly right away you
mous blocs of society are ready with vig at the Waldorf, but the doctor is con interfere with the constitutional rights
orous and even malicious opposition to If that was the attitude among doc vinced that hospitals do the greatest of the individuals who make up that
any form of cooperation organization. tors, they would be in a fix. Doctors amount of good to the greatest number. monopoly. Interfere with the indivi
They maintain that cooperatives interfere dedicate themselves to serve humanity in I All doctors are not like that. Many dual, and you interfere with the free
with private business. Here someone the mass, care for all alike. But in a ' eyen seek the way out of the undigni man, and you interfere with business.
might inquire, what today ' is private high percentage of his contacts the doc fied and unreasonable but almost uni Now, the individual may be interfering
business? There are indications that we tor meets people incapable of doing the versal system of charging the bankrolled with the rights of millions, but he has
no longer have any. In majority, we things he knows should be done. He three times what they ought to, so as to his constitutionally protected status as an
the people, haven't seemed to get that visits a home where a sick child needs take care of two other underprivileged individual; so it is only by criminal
yet, as we hold lovingly to the past, long treatment, $10,000 worth of services ~tients. I honestly believe that ninety prosecution that he can be made to cease
dancing along on old beliefs, continuing and medicine; the father is a low wage five percent of doctors, given an envir and desist. It has to be an actual crime
with the old conception of economics earner and there is no hope for the onment consistent with integrity, would -making money in itself is not a crime.
that introduced to us the delightful pe child. To those who have npthing, or want little more than the opportunity to What has to be proved is, that certain
culiarity of 1929. ganized charity gives medical attention fulfill their life's desire to be of mass individuals in combination have through
24 HORIZON August He gave to the Bible its literary excellence;
in ph,10sophy he transcended time
agreement conspired to control and re edge of physiology. People should un
strict the rights of other individuals, in
terfered with their freedom of oppor
derstand their bodies, how they work,
the intelligent realization should be
Francis Bacon:
tunity ' in the land of free opportunity,
where in ideal at least, competition is
reached that health depends on the pre
servation of health-to do certain things
The Incredible Lord
wide open to all. No neater subject could is to blunder into slow suicide. Out of Politician - Poet - Scholar
be conceived for endless legal haggling. $10 a year all our people could be edu Dramatist - Philosopher
Who are the people the doctors would cated in the full theory of preventative
medicine. Founder of Modern Science
UI
painted, which.-2"
was u~usual, for ;::, James version, entrusting the manuscript persecution. In the midst of his career on the altar of the gods as a symbol of
portraIts w ere to him for editorial revision; for a year Lord Bacon was charged with accepting approaching death. There is reason to
mad e usually and a half he worked on the editing to bribes. He knew that the charges were believe that Lord Bacon just disappeared,
only of children achieve for us the bible as we know it framed by jealous men who feared his that he left England and spent the re
of royal birth. l in all its extraordinary literary excellence power and he made little effort in de mainder of his life somewhere in central
The painting shows a boy with a head throughout. Bacon too was a great fense when tried in a court composed Europe. One version is that he lived to
large for his body, a high domed brow, a lawyer; it was he who amended the principally of his enemies. They found the advanced age of 87 and died in
face already moulded to the extraordinary Magna Charta, one of the magnificent him guilty, stripped him of his estates Holland. Various historians have him
erudition that was to come. At sixteen, documents of the English language, the and honors, imposed a fine many times dying in thre~ different places.
through with formal education, Francis pattern for our Bill of Rights. In a greater than his whole fortune, sentenced In support of
extensively traveled the Continent and world where it is hard enough to make him to the Tower. Which availed them the possibility
then returned to England to settle down one career a success, Bacon achieved exactly nothing, for King James released that he arranged
to the semi-respectable career of a lawyer. prodigious success in fields of accom him in a signed blank pardon to be filled the pre s ump
, Gray's Inn was at that time the mecca plishment so many-sided that in versa out by Bacon himself. Estates and hon t ion s of his
of lawyers and it was there that Fran tility and profundity he stands un ors were restored, the fine set aside, death and tacked
cis Bacon established himself and be matc~ed. everything was back as before. Except on to it the no
gan his career, one among the various Lord Francis Bacon, at the time when that Lord Bacon requested of the king tion of a mock
attorneys, advocates and lawyers of the he was most brilliant as a statesman, that he be permitted to end his public funeral is a pic-
Crown. ' To the end of his life he re wanted to be a scientist. The Aristot career. The letter James wrote in reply ture in an old book in the British Mu
served his quarters at Gray's Inn. • leian vogue had gained dominance over is still in existence; the king agrees that seum showing Lord Bacon dressed in wo
Little honor came to Bacon during the science" and with a mind that had the it would be better for posterity that his man's clothes, but with a beard and
life of Queen Elizabeth. He achieved the peculiar faculty of ever thinking straight, lordship should devote his remaining plumed hat tilted to one side, stepping
rank of Advocate, and that was all. The he rebelled. His schol;uly pen produced years to completing his priceless contri off the map of England and on to the
British Museum has preserved many of De Augmentis Scientiarum, or the Ad butions to human knowledge, and not map of Europe-in affirmation of the re
his letters to various persons, inquiring vancement of Learning; and the master continue with political activities: "You port that he was present and wept at his
why obstacles were put in his way, why piece, Not/um Organum, or the new in are more valuable to England and the own funeral. Dressed in black and dis
the conspiracy of purposes under which strument of human reason. By these Ages as a scientist than. you are even as guised as a woman, he was heard sob
no one would let him amount to any works the whole theory of scholarship Lord Chancellor." bing gently as his bones were laid to rest.
thing. By startling contrast is another was revolutionized; he gave to the world So Bacon returned to Gorhambury, to It is reasonable to suppose that there is
letter written when James the First came the very foundation upon which all begin his fifteenth rewriting of his great something to all this; the atmosphere of
to the throne; from the new monarch he modern science is based, won the title of book, Instauratio Magna, the sum and England had become oppressive; against
received nine honors, six of preferment "the father of modern science" so defi s~bs~ance of all knowledge from the be the king's favor his enemies were still
and three of person, and under this ad nitely that, even if grudgingly and with gmnlng of time. And at Gorhambury, determined to discredit him; Bacon lived
vancement he was made Viscount of St. little heart, modern science is forced to \'Vhere now is to be seen only one small in a day when it would be a 'great con
Albans, and in time, Lord of Veru1am. admit the solution of its numerous ~rner of the ruins of his house, he died, ' venience to disappear far from .the lower
His public career was of gradual ascent mysteries rests in the founda:tion sup; lJl popular belief, in the year 1626, aged ing shadow of the Tower. .
66.
to the climax of being named Lord plied by Bacon. He was a very great man in his coun
But even while succeeding so admirably The historical records give the cause try; it therefore seems quite odd that in
• As we go to press word is r~ived from in science, his great mind, according of his death as quinsy of the throat, re his supposed illness no physicians were
London that Gray's Inn has been bombed. Its sult of a cold caught in somewhat un called. On a par in oddity, is the
16th Century hall has been utterly destroyed,
to his Chaplain, had turned to fantasy believable manner-he caught cold by difficulty in finding just where the tomb
most of the library and 20,000 volumes burned. and he became a poet. We know that
plucking a frozen chicken in midwinter. of Lord Bacon is. One place it is sup
28 HORIZON .August BACON: THE INCREDIBLE LORD
29
posed to be is above a ruined Roman Bacon was a religious man. That is held The purpose of existence is to learn, trying them out to see if they will do it
waIl, which certainly would be no place against him by modern science. Bacon says Bacon in his New Atlantis; the pur- again.
to 'p ut a tomb. Practically everyone in said : "I would rather believe all the of knowledge is that all men may
.s
thing in the old building that, the edge by the of his health, the words that come out time and condition and the ages justi
church being empty and deserted, I did atheists and "the of his mouth are in evidence of w hat he fied it.
some exploring out of native curiosity. agnostics. As :d unks; heroism in time of disaster give Thus Bacon knew that the greater
It required little time and scarcely any necessary to science as its laboratories and , lNidence of his courage; the books he part of knowledge has to be in sus
physical effort to discover that someone textbooks is a great religious realization. are an evidence of his inclinations, pension; it will remain in suspension
\ -I hardly think out of reverence to If we are ever to know the mysteries • so are the people he associates with. during the tens of millions of years to
,Deity-had laid this fantastic colored of life, we must not only, be mentally - erything he does is evidence of what come. Beyond everything we know lies
modern tiling over where the inscribed and physically' educated; We must be is; nothing that he does is what he is. I. the immense field
~~
, tablet I was supposed to be, so that what
ever inscription might have been there
spiritually enlightened. Lord Bacon
knew that. Upon the solids of a great
Examine a man's shoes for years, and
~ will never find the man; but the .
.'.
. .....
of the unknown.
B a con believed
~.-
no longer could be read. rationalized faith he built his founda Shoes bear witness to the kind of a man nothing u s e£ u 1
Bacon seems to have been buried every tion of knowledge. He recognized Gcid .. is. There are all kinds of shoes and could be gained
where and nowhere. For several hun not as part of the Universe, but as the
he picked that pair. All right, if he by an effort to
dred years it seems to have been one of Universe. His was the God accepted by
picked them as you 'might say because under~and t hat
England's problems to keep his tomb from Plato.
of the shape of his feet-the shoes bear which is beyond
being found. In total of many peculiar Deity to Bacon was not some mys
1ritness to the foot. Everything we do the capacity of
circumstances it seems probable he did terious being sitting Qff in space, ruling
tells something about what we are. man to understand. Man has to build up
not .,die in 1626, he merely disappeared. the world, but was the world itself-in
'f'here is no way of finding out what capacity first.
On the European continent somewhere clusive of all p~rts and members. He
~ do except by a systematic accumula . Examining men according to the Ba
he continued to function in his own in further believed that the wisdom and
don of data concerning what we do. conian theory, we observe all the differ
Bacon are the monument to the man, essence absolutely unchanging, and t,hat
~ . types: observation,
tradition. ,
experimentation, into two categories, relevancies and irrel
he stands a beacon light of erudition un upon the unchanging realities of exist
evancies.
8,tes. It must not be overlooked, because Some things we do are not really good
nition as the founder of modern learning, be established. Men can be inconsistent,
:n
'4-radition is what Ill.en have always do so, but because of custom, tradition,
e from the beginning of time, which breeding, gentility, or habit. The action
the long distance view of what men that has no direct tie-up with the in
dividual's subconscious mind must be
Bacon's philosophy is representative of Creator, and the Will would go on and doing. Observation is seeing what
carefully examined in the desirable pur
the inductive process of thought. Lord never change. are doing now. Experimentation is pose to exclude the irrelevant fact when
30 HORIZON Aupsl
BACON: THE INCREDIBLE LORD
31
estimating man. ' Science and theology is that which resists any effort to grasp
today mistakingly lack the ability to it, to analyze it, to build upon it. It is seldom does it occur to the to instinct. But he is a thinking crea
carefully examine or remove or exclude like some mysterious essence that seeps that education:-S facts and the
ture that has not learned to think. Man,
those things which are not testimony. as in alchemy through the very glass of of science are for the most part greater than the animals, has not yet
Bacon's work was to strip away those the test tube and disappears. Upon stupid. Fact means something only
Y.1IVi."-v
learned that reason takes the place of
things which were not relevant and then Bacon's foundation modern science has it confers the power to do some- instinct. The animal obeys because it
to try to find out what things were left. built up our present scientific system. knows nothing else. What man must
His system was largely the removal of But science is not dealing with absolute means there are dynamic facts learn to obey is, that which he knows
irrelevancies. His theory was, if you fact. It can't. It is wholly ridiculous for static facts. ' The dynamic fact helps
is right. Man has not orientated him
took away everything, God remained. In anyone to think otherwise. ' All scientific build something, it creates something,
self in this great mysterious world.
. practice, you would not go that far. All truth is relevant. It is phenomenal and contributes to progress. A static fact
Bacon saw science as the way to orien
you could do was remove certain of not noumenal truth. It is truth regard is merely 'an acknowledgement of some
tation. Science has the virtue of making
the superficial elements and search for ing the obvious, and not the causation. thing, which even if acknowledged still you see clearly.
Being... Reality... the Fact ... the Truth... As instances: It is true that there are " mains unknown.
That many of
the Substance behind the shadow. a certain number of bones in the human Suppose we speak of life. Things his followers in
It never occ~red to Bacon to doubt body. That is true, but it is not a Liv live. A cow is alive. We have used a glory would be
the ,immortality of man. He was not ing Truth. As a fact , it is a dead fact. word-alive. The word is the right an near-sighted was
able to demonstrate it, but those who There may be 6,576,000 books in the swer to certain questions, but what does not anticipated
were the world's wisest had accepted it, public library; but if 'the little boy in it mean? You look up alive in the dic by Bacon. He
and he was in no position to disprove it. the back row says, "So whatr" he has tionary, where it is defined as "some didn't rea liz e
Science, whether it can prove immor said the right thing. It is a figure that ,thing living." Then you look IlP living,
words would be
tality or not, is not able to disprove it. does no good. If there were 14,000,000 Q d there it says, "something alive," and
accepted in place of ideas. The plan for
So, Bacon continued in his method of it would make no difference except to -where are you? You have been given which he laid the foundation was for
removing things that did not count, elim the librarian. It is a fact that we sleep 'the answer but you are just as ignorant men to rise up to reason, and so would
inating superficialities; he followed in and eat-and what's vital about that? ' • . you were when you started-you do man save himself-by coming gradually
the footsteps of the old beliefs: beneath Factually we can know it forever, and ,.JIOt know what life is. In words are
to a glorious cooperation between him
the robe is the body; beneath the body still be an ignoramus. And even if peo die answers to things, but not facts.
self and nature. To Bacon, science was
the vital organs; behind them, the living ple are born with the instinctual ability ,1.i. Two kind of facts are clearly defined at-one-ment with Nature, and men would
spiritual essence. to recognize certain things, that is not :. Bacon. There are facts which are , in learn. to JJe too wise to kick the stone
Continuing with re necessarily valuable. i)t6e po,ssession of the educated. There or break the plant, would learn to live
moving the for m, You'll remember Plato didn't know *e facts which are constantly dangling in a world of conscious adjustment with
trying to find the how many teeth he had; when he was ...front. of the noses of seekers after all the things that live. All knowledge
substance, he discov asked, he had to go off somewhere and Truth. I~ is the tendency of education is the servant of man. Men must learn
ered something. He count them. That was supposed to be flO stress static facts. Static facts have a to use it. Out of knowledge comes a
discovered that the evidence that Plato was ignorant. Place in ' the universe, but they are use
new Universe. The New Atlantis of
substance of Reality It is no evidence whatever. If we less unless tltey~ are ensouled and made
Bacon is a Universe ruled by reason,
e> Was so infinitely re- have thirty, thirty-six or forty-two teeth, to live by some power. In the static fact governed by the wise-because only the
fined it could not be what difference does it maker The crux 'We have the body without the soul.
wise are fit to rule.
analyzed. He saw that behind air organ of things is, we have elevated unim Words not understood are forms with
Breath-taking in the intensity of their
izations were intangible things which portant facts and have come to worship out a soul. The problem of ensouling factuality are Bacon's simplicities of
could not be changed. He became a them. We have satisfied ourselves that has been skipped over generally. People thought--only the wise are fit to rule.
Platonist. He exami~ed and accepted we know all there is' to know because l8'y Why worry, because you cannot find
We know this is true, even in the small
the realities of intangibles. Suddenly he we have found out how many elements ~t anything a~out it ~nyway; it's use- things of life, but we do nothing about
IIICSS to try to find RealIty. .
came face to face with what we will all there are in a certaiI:1 chemical com it. About to do something, we do not
disc0ver some time if we search long pound. If it is a great discovery that it Bacon said you can discover one type consult wisdom. We go off and do it.
enough-that we can not find absolute takes three or four legs to hold up a of Reality. Consider that in the Uni
Then suffer the consequences. We have
fact. stool, what of it? We know approxi v~rse everything created does something, philosophy and we have science, but we
Thus was B~con forced to make a mately how many . people there are in ~lth one exception-and the exception have not brought things down from the
lS man. Of all the parasites of the earth
line of demarkation between the abso the world, but what of itr We go to clouds and made them facts. The un
school and learn the heights of various lIlan is the worst. The reasoning to this educated man is afraid of knowledge,
lute and the relative fact. Absolute fact '
mountains, and we learn there are verbs, conclusion is simple. All creatures be afraid of long words. The wise man
is not susceptible either of analysis or low man are governed by instinct; they casts the long words aside. They are of
examination. You can examine the verte nouns, past and present participles, and do the thing they feel, and can not do no use to him. He has the facts.
bta of a fish but you cannot examine we put various words together and they
Truth. The very intangibility of Truth either make a good sentence or a bad anything different. Man, having a mind, The Novum Organum of Bacon is
DQ longer able to respond completely
dedicated to one great principle: If you
32 HORIZON August, 1941
strip away th~ false you find the Real; is that mysterious power we call God.
if you strip away illusions you come to That, to him, was the Supreme Fact.
facts; if by a method of trial and error The supreme knowledge of knowledge,
you diminate mistakes, that wblch is the wisdom of wisdom is, that we shall
real will remain. All men learn by the find Living Truth, Divine Truth, under
trial and error system, live by it. But all the forms that exist. And never shall
when they try a number of things, and we stop searching and never stop seek
they are not right and they hurt, they ing until ultimatdy we discover God in
blame the gods for their suffering. the Universe.
The experimental system to Bacon was Bacon re-stated the dream of Plato,
the great school. The universities of his which was a world ruled by Wisdom
time could teach him nothing. He en and Virtue, with Living Truths taught
visioned a school where the things that men to make them conscious of their
were taught were the things that are responsibility. It will come. We may
real, where great, strong, wise men were not live to see it. We probably won't
not afraid to pray, where God and the live to -see it. We may be back to see
tdescope went hand in hand, where the it. But, here and now, it rests now in
physicians prayed before they operated, our hands to help make it true, to press
the school where the realization of Di on to a new order of man's knowledge
vine purpose and the possibility of human by which he shall perceive inwardly that
accomplishment went hand in hand- which is not to be found externally.
the school of wise, deep, gende think This then is the substance and essence
ers. To him that was the college, the of the Baconian life: That man should
true collegium. That was the school of know. By knowing should live. By
tomorroW'. It is still the school of to living should teach others to live. So
morrow. that in time the whole w'orld shall be
Bacon knew that behind all the come the City of Peace, the World of
Facts, behind all Truth in the Universe,Brotherhood and Fraternity.
(CoNDENSATION FROM A PUBLIC LECTUl\E
Sugg~st~d R~adjng: FRANCIS BACON: THE CoNCEALED POET)