The Soul and Its Mechanism - Daily: Thursday, 27th of March Psychology is wandering in that borderland of the unseen which we dignify with the words energy - whether nervous, atomic or vital, - force, etheric vibrations, and electric currents and charges and the freely floating force of the psychologists, to which has been given the name libido. All the sciences seem to be converging on this same no-mans land, on the indefinable. Perhaps the veil, when lifted, will reveal to us the promised land of mans dreams and aspirations. A spirit of uncertainty and expectancy is paralleling the certainties and cold facts of modern science. It is almost as if mankind were standing before the curtain in a cosmic proscenium, waiting for it to rise and reveal the next act, in which humanity can participate intelligently. It is a humanity with a long past, much gained experience and accumulated knowledge, which stands thus waiting, but it is also a humanity which realizes that it may be called upon to take part in a revelation and a development wholly unexpected, and for which its present equipment and understanding of life may prove inadequate. [17] Meanwhile in this cosmic proscenium, and in the approach to truth through various lines, science has arranged the known facts and is deducing the next possible development and is proceeding in its many branches and activities upon hypotheses which, correct or incorrect, merit experiment and test. Voicing what should be the attitude of mind for students in all fields of human knowledge, Bertrand Russell says: What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. - Russell, Bertrand, Sceptical Essays, p. 157.
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