-V •
Issued Twice a Month
VOLUME III.
Subscription Price $1.00 a Year : • ;
\Nummti
•" 1 - ''"w" ‘ir%
mu
a
Based Upon Revolution of Other Ancient Sciences Through the Discovery of Underlying
Truths ana the Rapid Matunty ofModernS<^ence8,with their Imposed Industrial Structures, When
Based Upon Scienhfic Truths.^-This Article Contains Miich That Should Interest Roth tile Read' ah#
the Unread.—-Economics the Only Ancient Schaice Not Yet Placed Upon a Scientific Basis. r ^
In another article the editor has told of his
long insistence that economics has an underlying
philosophical basis, and of the necessity of its
recognition and the conforming thereto of the
production and consumption programs of the
world. The same article bears the announcement
of a task completed and of release from a ministry
that has largely engaged my interest and has con
sumed much of my intellectual vigor for eight
or ten years. It remains only to fortify my long
insistence upon the existence of fundamental
truths,, the necessity for. their compiling, and of
the necessityjfto launch any true economic
reform from that depth of underlying truth.
The new-deal programs were compared in the
September 1 issue of the Voice with what I deem
some of the fundamentals, which were designated
as economic axioms. The failure of a number of
the new - deal launchings to conform thereto
doubtless seems. a: trifle to most readers. And, of
course, the failure of several enterprises in the
new-deal program to sustain the test of funda
ment^tfuthi
view of the. uttOa^B7oT1hd^sjc:j^aettce»^
world economy, as demonstrated in the industrial,
distributive, and consumptive processes. Appar
ently meaningless perhaps to many reads are
those ‘axioms” ; yet their acceptance could but
revolutionize the economic science as the discovery
and acceptance of ever-existing, but formerly un
recognized, basic truths, have revolutionized other
sciences and philosophies which, like economics,
had, before the acceptance of discovered basic
truth, ju6t “growed up,” like Topsy,
No Redemtpive Scheme. Urged.
You will take, note that I, unlike those who
have launched programs for the banishment of
poverty, have not urged any scheme of redemp
tion but have only, insisted that- an/y Program
launched shall be conceded in view of eternal
truths. I know, and you know if you have really
got a concept of the first ‘axiom” and its cohjllary,
that the acceptance.of that one comprehensive eco
nomic truth and the. basing of economic and soaal
organization upon it would revolutionize the econo
mic ana social woria. winy ^ v— —
have I pleaded for. Yet, if accepted by the masses
there are plenty of those like the silversmiths of
Ephesus when Paul was conceived as turning t e
world upside down and about to destroy t etr
profitable trade in. the images of Diana wou
he greatly disturbed and if. possible incite to no •
For still in this world of 1935, “Great is Diana o
..the Ephesians.’’. • - ■ -
I appeal only for the revolution of economi
upon the basis of fundamental truths, just as
other age-old sciences and philosophies have een
revolutionized. And in order to show the rea ers
in this final appeal for a recognition of the ex
istence of such truth and of the necessity tor
economic processes and policies to be con orm.t
thereto, I shall, in the following paragraphs, ci
the difficulties of the discoverers of the oasc
truths whidr' revolutionized other primeval
ees aiid-pffilosophies in securing fheir accep a ,
and of the revolutionizing effect of their fina
ceptance. I shall first take astronomy as a very e -
fective illustration, and follow immediately witn
medicine, lest those.who can only abide the pr
tical lost patience. • -.
2100 Year* from Thales to Columbus _
Astrosomy is just , about as old as the art o
getting a living. ' I.ts development began ™ ,
dawn of human existence. The hrst reg
An-Ending And A Beginning
This issue of the Voice makes the ending of
one phase of its publicati'omaiid the beginning
of another. m *
The article on this page and~the one begin
ning on Page 5 should be read through and
through despite their length. The latter arti
cle grows pretty warm towards the close. Every,;
line in the paper should be interesting to ;any
sensible man. ~ ‘ .•
.truth was probably, the fact 'that, the sun rises
-in the east after every period of. darkness. Like
Topsy, astronomy ‘‘growed up” for ages, the basis
. of its development being altogether that of human
experiences and unguided observation. After many ,
milleniums of growth through more or less intelli
gent observation on the plains; of Chaldea, in
Egypt, perhaps in China and other lands, the
.amassed data reached Greece. Ihthat land of in
tellectuality cafoie the Erst glimpse of the hidden
' .. lut? nrf %■:,
Ezekiel was..phtjphesiding/.tKat Thales, a Ghe
astronomer, conceived arid enuntiated the idea
of the sphericity of the earth—by the way, a. ra
ther practical matter, yet one that was not suffi
ciently accepted as truth for more than 2100
years,, or until Columbus’s dayj'and even I have
known a-man or two who still did not believe
the earth is round, and a late deader in Zion City
made that a part of his creed.
2100 Year* From Pythagoras to uaineo
. Forty,years after the startling enuntiation of
Thales, Pythagoras, another Greek, enuntiated
the truth that the sun is the center of the plane
tary system, and that the earth revolves about it.
However, not even his successors supported the
truth revealed by Pythagoras,
Members of the Alexandrian school discovered
a number of facts and attempted to formulate a
system of science. Erastothones came _ close
' to figuring out the obliquity of thd ecliptic, and
the size of the earth. Hipparchus, about 100 years
before the birth of Christ, discovered the procea
sion of the equinoxes'and a number of other im
portant truths: Ptolemy, about 230 years after
birth, undertook to formulate a system
which would include air the known phenomena,
and i'n doing so eclipsed for hundreds of years the
truth emrntiated by Pythagoras, that the sun ^ls
the center of the planetary system and that the
earth revolves around it. Ptolemy, with the limit
ed ’ knowledge then existing, couldn’t make all
things fit into a system (a science) if the Pytha
gorean truth should be accepted. Accordingly he
discards the greatest discovery of the ages and
proposes again-the earth as the center of the hav
ens with all the heavens revolving about it. Here
comes in that matter of the “music of the
soheres ” about which somebody was asking a few
years ago in the papers, to enable all the heaven^
bodies, evidently traveling at different paces, to
circle the earth each day, he conceived the heavens
as consisting of a set of great hollow transparent
soheres in which the van-motioned heavenly
bodies'were set as jewels. All the' fixed stars were
in one sphere; the sun in another, the moon and
each planet in its own particular sphere, and those
soheres moved so harmoniously that they created a
delight fbl music—“the music of the spheres, Miss
Nell Battle Lewis, for you, I seem to recall as the
mauirer referred to.' Thus what progress bad:
been made was largely lost-4afe the expenmen- i
tal. The Ptolemaic system, swayed th6 astfoncn
mic world for many centuries^
The Arabs, 1200 years ago,'began observations,
but no ^scientific foundation was discovered. hy
them. Again, about 700 years ago, the study oi
astronomy returned to western Europe. In time
there arose the blazing star Copernicus who- ex
ploded the Ptolemaic system and enuntiated a
more perfect form of the Pythagorean system,
with the sun in the center and the planets, in- ,
eluding the earth/ revolving around it. That was
-during the life of our friend Columbus.
Time moves on. The telescope is invented, Gal
ileo, as late as the Spanish settlement of St. Au
gustine, Florida, and Sante Fe, Ifew Mexico, and t
after the birth of Virginia Dare, and',:
>after the settlement at Jamestown, - cam?
upon the scene. His discoveries were itn- v
portant, but all'important was his. enuntiation of ' :
/ the nomaccepted Pythagorean and CbpernfcaR
doctrine of the sums being the center of things
' and fhe earth and the other planeta af*
^from water ahd h?ead'‘arftf>feternad damnatibh^tf/
* the heretical fool didn’t retract his heresy. Podr'r
fellow! He retracted. Yet the'fundamental truth
first announced 2100 years before by Pythagoras
did, despite the pope’s dosed.mind and his then
esteemed deadly decree, find reception—but just
the other, day, when the territory'of the present
United States was dotted over with Spanish, Eng
lish, and French colonies. /
Thus the foundation of astronomy was ultt
* mately laid and it was permitted! to become'»
science, Development was no longer hampered,
but orderly, and intelligently- conceived.. Advance
after advance has been made, and Einstein. is
still delving into its underlying principles, having
extended his studies into the realm of reloitwity.
But no advance at all could be made till
.the Copemican foundation was accepted. It was
only in the same period that Columbus accepted
the doctrine of the sphericity of the eartli and
proved it. ^
Now, consider a moment that Economics has
merely “growed up” during alt the ages through
which astronomy underwent' the' throps attending
. a new birth, and not even one effort has been
registered to discover the fundamental and re*
volutionizing truths!
How Medicine Growed Up.
The beginnings of medicine were possibly as
early as those of astronomy. Certainly primeval
man should be credited with having as much in
telligence and regard for his health-as the. dog,
and we know that the dog readily chooses for
certain ills the curative grass or herb,’ the experi
ence of his protypes discovered. ^Thug^ we vniay
assume that man.had utilized many remedial,
herbs before the day of - Aesculapius, the tradi
tional founder of the medicinal art. And down
through the ages~the science of medicine “gtfito
ed up.” The experimental increment^Tn the very
nature of the case, were more definite than those
of astronomy. A cure for the belly-ache is more
"readily checked thana thdbry about the move
ments of heavenly bodies. Yet no morning star;
' of promise to the bedwarfed science arose till the
discovery of the circulation of the blood by_ Har
vey,. which occurred juM before Colufritflis believ
ed* the 21O0tyear old theory of the earth's spheri
city and of the solar system! Li course 6f time,
^Continued On. Page- Two}.
..... / /;
■ .