athematical ideas we should not
be able to proceed any further than in the past. Our life problems have
always been "solved" by verbalists and rhetorical metaphysicians who
cleverly played with vague words and who always ignored the supremely
important matter of dimensions because they were ignorant of it. There was
no possible way to arrive at an agreement on the significance of words, or
even the understanding of them. Let us take, for instance, such words as
"good" or "bad" or "truth;" volumes upon volumes have been written about
them; no one has reached any result universally acceptable; the effect has
been to multiply warring schools of philosophy--sectarians and partisans.
In the meantime _something_ corresponding to each of the terms "good,"
"bad," "truth" exists as matter of fact; but what that something is still
awaits scientific determination. If only these three words could be
scientifically defined, philosophy, law, ethics and psychology would cease
to be "private theories" or verbalism and they would advance to the rank
and dignity of sciences.

Here I may quote a characteristic of life as expressed by one of the
"heroes" of my esteemed friend Harvey O'Higgins, in his book, _From the __
Life, Imaginary Portraits of Some Distinguished Americans_ (Harper, N.
Y.).

"Warren never philosophized; he handled facts as an artisan
handles his tools; but if he _had_ philosophized, his theory of
life would probably have been something like this: 'There is no
justice, there is no morality, in nature or in natural laws;
justice and morality are laws only of human society. But society,
natural life, and all civilization are subject in their larger
aspects to natural laws--which contradict morality and outrage
justice--and the statesman has to move with those laws and direct
his people in accordance with them, despite the lesser by-laws of
morality and justice.' "

If such are the creeds of "distinguished people" anywhere, what better can
we expect than that which we see in the history of humanity?

But the fact that the old philosophy, law, ethics, psychology, politics
and sociology could not solve the practical problems of humanity, is not
any reason whatsoever why we should despair. The problems can be solved.

To follow the reasoning of this book, it is not necessary to be a highly
trained specialist; the only qualifications required are candor, an open
mind, freedom fro