Spencer Heath Archive

Item 273

9 August 1952

     The objective world is a world of events and of indefinite extent.

     The subjective world — the mind of man — is evolving out of the objective world.

     The events constituting the objective world have three (and only three) quantitative manifestations, measurable in units of mass, motion, and time. The propor­tions of these — their ratios in objective events — constitute the rationale of the objective world.

     The mind of man is primitively qualitative — feeling, sensing — unique to each mind, and not commensurable, one with another.

    But out of its cosmic origins the mind of man evolves also rational reactions, super-sensational, definitively quantitative, dimensional. These are common to all minds because inter-commensurable.

    The background, sub-stratum, of science, as of all else, is the objective world of rational (measurable) events. The development of science is the rational apprehension of events as integrations of mass, motion and time in their respective dimensions and ratios. Scientific technology is the reproportioning of the mass, motion and time in events.

    In this, man is no longer mere creature but creator, participant with the cosmos in the ordering and determining of events.