PREFACE.

Being convinced of these things, we must ask: how could a person help but doubt—or even deny—the existence of a Divine Being? This is especially true when His laws are generally portrayed as tending to reduce millions of people to the condition of mere laborers performing menial tasks original: "hewers of wood and drawers of water," a biblical reference to a life of perpetual servitude for the benefit of a few. These few are encouraged to eat, drink, and be merry, while taking steps to ensure the "elimination," as quickly as possible, of those who are poor, uneducated, and unable to protect themselves. Most certainly, they will doubt!

Since these have been the sad results of persistently using the a priori reasoning from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience method in the most important of all sciences, we may now hope for a change. We hope that soon it will be admitted that science develops from within and never from without, just like all other organized bodies. The tree of science grows from the roots upward;* and its various branches all work together to achieve one great goal. That goal is to give humanity increased power to control the great forces of nature and to develop those mental and moral faculties whose seeds have been built into the system of every individual of the human race.

When this realization arrives, the world will no longer be confused by economic "assumptions" that have no foundation to stand on. These theories are currently so poorly understood by even the teachers themselves that they fail completely when trying to make them clear to those who wish to be taught.