The Unity of Law - As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral Science

* In the same work, page 41.

"...distances are so vast that it may have taken hundreds of centuries to cross them, the impulses of force enter the eye. By making an atomic change in the nerve, they create the sense of sight. Star and nerve tissue are parts of the same system—stellar and nervous forces are related original: "correlated". Furthermore, sensation awakens thought and sparks emotion, so that this wonderful chain of energy original: "dynamic chain" binds the realms of matter and mind into a living unity through immeasurable spans of space and time."*

Spanning "all levels of existence," as we are assured it does, this supreme law must naturally include the force that makes up a human being. By doing so, it gradually prepares him for the high position for which he was intended from the start. That human life is included in this law will become clear to the reader after considering the following facts:

† See note to page 407.

From the days of Caesar to the present—a period of almost 2,000 years—there has been little, if any, increase in the total population of humanity.† Nevertheless, the amount of human force The author uses "force" here to mean productive energy, power, and capability has increased so much that individuals now perform work that previously required hundreds of people. Even women original: "the weaker sex" have grown so much in power that they are now major contributors to the global exchange of ideas. Only fifty years ago, this exchange could not have been maintained even by the combined efforts of all mankind. Where, then, has this wonderful force we see today come from? To answer this question, we have the certainty that, as "force can be neither created nor destroyed," and as "every expression of force must come from a pre-existing equivalent force," then human force—whether physical, mental, or moral—necessarily results from converting forces that have existed for all time to human use. In this respect, there is no difference between man and—