VML-2/27/02

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One thing is clear from this that mankind had a perception of the

philosophy of causation even at the early time. Later on we shall see

how our philosophers bring that out in the language of philosophy and

logic, but here it is almost in the language of children. One thing

you may remark in reading these books that it is all internal

perception. If you ask me if this can be practical, my answer is, it

has been practical first, and philosophical next. You can see that

first these things have been perceived and realized and then written.

This world spoke to the early thinkers. Birds spoke to them, animals

spoke to them, the sun and the moon spoke to them and little by

little they realized things, and got into the heart of nature. Not by

cogitation not by the force of logic, not by picking the brains of

others and making a big book, as is the fashion in modern times, not

even as I do, by taking up one of their writings and making a long

lecture, but by patient investigation and discovery they found out

the truth.