The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy Synopsis

When we speak of man we have a conception of humanity as a whole and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can any one doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all innumerable types and characters constitute an entirety a unit? Though free to think and act we are held together like the stars in the firmament; with ties inseparable. These ties we cannot see but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt and it hurts me too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy a lump of matter which of all the lumps of matter in the universe I care least for and still it grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only a part of a whole?

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