Dwayne

“ Metaphysical speculation and its swarming progeny of blind and selfish political philosophies, private opinions, private “truths”, and private doctrines, sectarian opinions, sectarian “truths” and sectarian doctrines, querulous, confused and blind—such is characteristic of the childhood of humanity. The period of humanity’s manhood will, I doubt not, be a scientific period—a period that will witness the gradual extension of scientific method to all the interests of mankind—a period in which man will discover the essential nature of man and establish, at length, the science and art of directing human energies and human capacities to the advancement of human well-being in accordance with the laws of human nature.