Show I THE SCIENCE OF LIFE Interesting Lecture By Prof White Icy at the University In the public lecture course at the university Prof Whiteley speaking on The Science of Life said in part According to the doctrine of evolution evolu-tion man has passed through all the progressive stages of this worlds highest phenomenon life from someone some-one primordial form up to the present wondrously heterogeneous human ego I Man is a microcosm literally the epitome of the universe By the wider study of nature we can best approach the special study of man All the sciences touch man and help to explain eXllain the science of his life Hitherto the Hiherto changeful complexity of human nature has led to the conclusion conclu-sion that neither man individually nor man In society can be a subject of science in the strict sense in which this is true of the objects of outward nature I is sufficient to say that any facts are fitted in themselves to be a subject of science if they follow one another according to constant laws although those laws may not have been discovered or even discoverable by our present cowers The science of life is a sufficiently possible science to yield the benefits of sciencethe increase of human happiness happi-ness and the decrease of human suffering suf-fering This science will teach us that the world is so constituted that if we were consistently intelligent and morally right we should be individually socially social-ly and physically happy Already considerable progress has been made on some of the lines of the science of life I refer especially to biological bi-ological arid sociological studies The science of life is closely related to a number of the other sciences and cannot can-not be properly treated without preparation pre-paration in those related studies beginning be-ginning even with physics for notwithstanding not-withstanding the outcry against Huxley Hux-ley there is a physical basis of life Even the attempt at the formulation of the science of life is recent and as yet by no means exact but its future is unquestionably a great one and fraught with the highest good t man and to the societies of men |