Moreover, it is incumbent upon it to always know precisely where it is within those limits and as it moves within those limits to be able to account precisely for how it does so, how it is always within its proper limits, and how it gets from there to here. If it is ever in doubt of any of this it has already impeached itself of its responsibility. This is the Inquisition. The crimes of reason are at least as great and fully culpable as are those of the authorities, secular and ecclesiastical, it superseded. That crime is the doctrine that one thing follows another, that measure is always only of the division of the same.
Science is the study of patterns of cause and effect.
Its method is measure as the extensive division of the same. Time and space are measured in precise units precisely of the same extension. Hypotheses are presented in arguments in which each statement must flow as a consequence of its predecessors unless derived from generally accepted authority. There is no science that does not explicitly or implicitly affirm the necessity of the causal chain. If the First World War was an effort by the remaining vestiges of feudal authority to repudiate democracy by affirming its right to demand the sacrifice of its young men in the name of social order and law, then the Second World War was an effort of reason, in the form of an industrialized economy, to supersede that failed feudalism.