The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-19

/ 70 WHICH indukllQ mas DSen conducted
in unscientific practice. with the special
purpose of ascertaining what kinds Of
uniformities have been found perfectly
lnvariable. pervading all nature, and
what are those which have been found
to vary with difference of time, place,
or other changeable circumstances.
| Man is necessarily led to such unset
entific cancellations by the laws and
conditions Of his existence. Like all
other animals, he is endowed with in
stinctiye powers, by which he is enabled
to adapt himself by instincts of reason
and knowledge. and not unknowingIy
that is, by blind instinct he is com
Epelled by the very necessities of his POI
sition to acquire such knowledge of the
Iorder of nature that he can apply it
readily to his uses. 1t is this knowledge
which constitutes the experience Of
mankind. Hence it follows that the
flaws derived from that experience, al
tho often obscurely apprehended, are
TRUE laws, and, when formulated ac-
cording to scientific method, may be
used not only deductively. for the prin-
clples of practical science of human
nature, but synthetically, for the con-
nection and explanation of those prin-
lciples which are derived from correct
ed experiences and observations that
lis to say, which are true scientific in
auctions.
Man has had unity in experience
lin the three great forces of creation
1.-THE physical, the vital, and the mental,
and it is only thru the proper co-or-
Idination and generalization of these
three that an accurate mental science
cha be attained. There can be no an
tagonism between true statement of
genuine knowledge of either of the sci
'ences-the material, biological, and
mans consciousness.
Preconceived opinions, prejudices,
fundamental fallacies and imperfect
methods are the great obstacles in the
way of attaining a true appreciation of
the high value of a genuine and prac-
tical science of mind. In its highest
development and widest extent it may
be termed the science of human nature,
and coordination of all sciences that
have the laws of thought as their com
mon basis-psychology, philology, So
cial economy and ethics. All states of
are phenomena of the
laws Of thought, and all coincide with
existence, with being, with vital process
ses, without which they cannot take
place, hence a knowledge of the laws
of life must be an integral constituent
OF true mental science. \,
In the mental science class at Llano
on Sunday night, August l3, the class
was told that everyone of them was a
dynamo and that on the proper use Of
that dynamo their every achievement
depends, and that the thots and emo
tons that they cultivate and harbor
determine the direction and expression
of their dynamic power. Thought
is the ruler and creator of all form
and, all events occurring in form. Phys
ical energy is nothing in comparison
with the omnipotence Of thot, because
thot enables ,man to harness all other
natural powers"
Whenever we are conscious, we find
that thought precedes act; or, taking
special instances. we feel that special
states of thought precede special states
of both thought and action. Such are
the states which are designated by the
terms sensation, conception, desire and
the like.
Emanuel Kant in his Kritik der rel
men Vernunft says: in the idea pure
reason possesses even causality. and
the power of producing that which its
contains. Hence we cannot
say of knowledge (wisdom) in the dis
paraging way, 1t is only an idea.''
But in examining the order Of
events in life and organization, or even
in creation at large, says DR.. lhom-
as F. Laycock, in his Brain and ,
Mind we must take the utmost care ,
not to extend the doctrine of ideas as
causes beyond its legitimate bounds.
The word is in truth only another word
for Mind in relation with something
else. So that when we say a general
idea is the cause Cor source) Of all its
derivative ideas, and these in their turn
the causes of the dynamical changes
which they correlate (being the imme-
diate antecedents to these changes), 4
we do not mean cause in an absolute
sense, for there is only one absolute
namely, the Supreme Mind (supercon-
,ciousl The immediate antecedents. II