The Dog Knows, But Does Not Know

Our Duty, As Men And Women, Is To Proceed As If Limits To Our Ability Did Not Exist. We Are Collaborators In Creation.

The Machine Not Only Does It Relieve Us Mechanically Of A Crushing Weight Of Physical And Mental Labor; But By The Miraculous Enhancing Of Our Senses, Through Its Powers Of Enlargement, Penetration And Exact Measurement, It Constantly Increases The Scope And Clarity Of Our Perceptions. It Fulfills The Dream Of All Living Creatures By Satisfying Our Instinctive Craving For The Maximum Of Consciousness With A Minimum Of Effort! Having Embarked Upon So Profitable A Path, How Can Mankind Fail To Pursue It?

As A Result Of Changes Which, Over The Last Century, Have Modified Our Empirically Based Pictures Of The World And Hence The Moral Value Of Many Of Its Elements, The "human Religious Ideal" Inclines To Stress Certain Tendencies And To Express Itself In Terms Which Seem, At First Sight, No Longer To Coincide With The "christian Religious Ideal".

To Write The True Natural History Of The World, We Should Need To Be Able To Follow It From Within. It Would Thus Appear No Longer As An Interlocking Succession Of Structural Types Replacing One Another, But As An Ascension Of Inner Sap Spreading Out In A Forest Of Consolidated Instincts. Right At Its Base, The Living World Is Constituted By Conscious Clothes In Flesh And Bone.

Humanity Has Been Sleeping-and Still Sleeps-lulled Within The Narrowly Confining Joys Of Its Little Closed Loves. In The Depths Of The Human Multitude There Slumbers An Immense Spiritual Power Which Will Manifest Itself Only When We Have Learnt How To Break Through The Dividing Walls Of Our Egoism And Raise Ourselves Up To An Entirely New Perspective, So That Habitually And In A Practical Fashion We Fix Our Gaze On The Universal Realities.