Spencer Heath Archive

Item 895

Ideas for promotion of Citadel, Market & Altar?

June 13, 1955

 

 

 

Science discovers the rationale of events

The soul of science is its method

Quantitative — thereby rational

Science postulates an objective world —

A world possessing a rationality like ours

Because ours has evolved out of it

 

A book without a predecessor in its field

Not in any tradition — Founding a tradition

 

The “practical” man’s mind is on the immediate, the matter right in hand, manipulation of details in ways that are familiar to him — relevant as routine. He is content to travel in small circles, tolerant towards the customary, critical towards the new or strange. He lacks vision — perspective of the larger similarities and interrelatedness of things. So he is a creature of habit, baffled and inept in a crisis, overtaken by slow change.

 

Empiricism without science is unprogressive and blind. But it is the seed-bed of science. Science, through observation and experiment, finds rationality in the events experienced. This is the whole mission of science, as such. Engineers, technical, apply the rationality (theories) of science and thereby bring about events that they desire — events they dream and plan.

 

The Book of your Dreams.

 

Science discovers the rationale of events. The soul of science is its method, which is quantitative, thereby rational. Science postulates an objective world, a world possessing a rationality like ours because ours has evolved out of it.