Anthropo-biology : towards a system of the sciences

ineptitude of those who to-day guide and rule the world and cast it headlong on its present course. What is desperate in our situation is that those who are in positions of power are ignorant of the principles and system of the whole, and that in fact amongst the learned of the world there is next to no understanding that there is even the possibility of a science of knowledge of the whole and of the laws and principles which guide the whole. It follows that the New Atlantis Foundation is deliberately and directly practical in its intention. What must be developed in the future as anthropo-biology and anthropopsychology are different from the biology and psychology which we have at the moment, because their aim is something quite other than that conceived by the ordinary analytical sciences today. The goal is the organisation of the planet, the organisation of our human household and the individuation and universalisation of the individual souls who are this humanity of which we each find ourselves a centre.

Now in order to try to make this not merely an abstract formula of intention but the possible basis of a growing discipline and activity, there are certain perspectives and views which may help us to envisage the concrete possibility of such a science as anthropo-biology. In the first place we must take up and challenge the current dogma of science that the world of nature is the whole of which man is merely a part. Is it not rather the fact that man is the synthesis of nature? Should we not look upon and understand nature as the analysis of man and man as the synthesis and key to the whole of nature?

In the work of Dr. Jaworski, who died earlier this year, and to whose importance Mitrinovi¢ was continually calling attention, there is an unusual presentation of the biological tree, that commonly used picture of the evolutionary growth of nature. Usually this has been drawn with the different grades of animals ringed upwards on the trunk of the tree, and man standing at the top of it, so that man came out as the highest animal. To Jaworski this was manifestly untrue. To him the whole trunk of the tree, right from the origin to the top, the central thread throughout the whole of this pageant of evolution of nature and

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