Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1790

Pencil notes in a pocket notebook dated March 23, from Law School, American University, Washington, D.C.

1904-1905?

NOTES

     A principle of natural law, found true in one branch of knowledge is most likely true in all branches, or at least to have some analogy in all branches.

    The grand attribute of truth is its universality. In morals, natural science, politics, economics, what is true in one is true in all.

    The reason for overlooking this universality lies in our habit of associating any principle solely with that to which it has already been applied.

    For example, the “survival-of-the-fittest” idea has been confined to the mere physical or bodily aspect of life. It is the same with the idea of “Might makes right and Force rules the world.

    These are all expressions of genuine principles but in our narrow conception we have so cramped and copped /sic/ them they seem brutish when we think of them