Spencer Heath Archive

Item 923

Fall 1950?

Original -> 912

 

 

 

 

Not what we reject and condemn but what we accept and embrace will determine our course, be it for good or for ill.

     Fine words butter no parsnips nor do foul words better their objects. Protest, at the best, can only stimulate reform, and the discerning in public and poli­tical affairs have long lost their faith in legislative patchwork and bade their farewell to reform.* Thus many have despaired and some have turned naively to violence and destruction, as though they might build higher the House of Life by blasting its foundations away.

     So far as conscious thinking or design is concerned, the civilization thus far attained is the merest accident, but in the great and continuing process of nature there is vast uniformity of process and consistency of rationale. Apart from the human world, this uniformity and consistency has been discovered on both the cosmic and the micro-cosmic scale. All the wonders of science and technology, all the rational creations of man, spring from the discovery and the application of these uniformities of nature in the reali­zation of dreams and desires. In this nature attests her validity, her own likeness, to the mind of man that from her sprang. Even when seemingly she defies rationality or uniformity in special or individual instances, even here she is unfailingly consistent upon the statistical scale. The electron, the atom, cell, organism or star may resist analysis and baffle prediction when examined singly or in small numbers, yet their behavior is found to be consistently rational when taken on the statistical scale.

 

*[Reference to John Chamberlain, Farewell to Reform. -Editor]