Synopsis
Excerpt from The Curves of Life
Modern research is gradually becoming free both from accidental prejudices and from meretricious standards. There is a new spirit at work upon constructive philosophy which has never been so urgent, so creative, or so strong; and knowledge has become much more accessible at the very time when its transmission over the whole world has been enormously facilitated by new methods of communication. This means that thought is becoming clearer and more critical, and that a breadth of outlook and a freedom of imagination have resulted which must impel alike the laziest to look about him, and the busiest to linger and inquire. Some ripple of that widespread impulse has produced this book; but the very process just described has created its own difficulty; for specialisation is in these days so sternly necessitated by the Obvious benefits of the division Of labour, that it becomes an increasingly complicated task to put the various results of separate investigations in their true relation with each other. Analysis, therefore, has been my first aim. Not till my last two chapters have I ventured to elaborate the synthesis which completes and justifies my catalogue of details and for this I have ventured to propose a convenient instrument which may be usefully employed in dealing with the varied multiplicity of natural phenomena.
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