Anthropo-biology : towards a system of the sciences

science of our day. Nothing which is not merely measurable, not reduceable to a system of metrics has a place in the science of to-day. The great work and genius in science of men like Newton was that they found strange formulae by which to handle qualities as if they were quantities, to make them measureable, to deny what is essentially experienceable and to reduce it to a system of metrics. Our whole modern technology and science with all its immense value to civilisation has come about through the incredible genius of great men of science who found ways to eliminate the qualitative from their study of nature. Today we must reverse this because science, which together with art and religion is a great hypostasis of culture, has become so autonomous, so overruling and overweaning in its pride, that it leaves no place whatsoever within its world vision for any qualitative experience. There are no colours, no tones, no tastes, no smells within the world of science, but only numbers, formulae, equations. And so the ordinary ones of us who are not specialist scientists—and the same applies to the specialist scientists in so far as they are ordinary human persons too—are left in ourselves empty and bereft of any content of nature with which our souls or our life of culture can have any link or bridge whatsoever. In these new disciplines of anthropo-biology and anthropopsychology and the other anthropo-sciences, exactly that is the starting point which science derides, the direct human experience of how it is to you. Then within the system of the inherentnot transcendental but inherent—principles and laws of the whole, we can learn how to give expression to what our own experience is. The biology of dogs should carry in it our own personal experience of dogs, what we know and think and feel about them—the same for lions and tigers. Everyone has some intuition about the nature of lions and tigers, which is a necessary part of the real anthropo-biology. In this way these anthroposciences must be developed through the actual life experience of people, and not by some strange scientific discipline which excludes all human experience from it. Our everyday experience is to-day under-valued. Through the overwhelming material success of science which has come about through denying the

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