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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The True Laws of Life
The subject of the True Laws of Life is a very wide one, because these laws cannot be ascertained from a limited observation only of a few facts. We may collect a few facts on the physical basis, we may collect a few facts on the domain of the animal kingdom, and some others which concern human development, but the deductions drawn from these facts must be limited because we do not take into consideration the fact that there are many other planes of consciousness and of existence, and to derive laws concerning life on only a few stages would be altogether insufficient to establish a general rule for our life as human beings.
If human beings were totally separated from other beings, if they were to live on a planet without any other life than the human life we might make laws of life after observations only of the human species. Scientists have derived very limited conclusions, right only so far as those limited observations are concerned, and they cannot derive conclusions from the facts beyond the horizon of their observations. Suppose a being living in the sea and having only one organ that of touch, to be suddenly developed into a higher being with five senses and placed on the shore.
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