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    Men and Systems
    Men and Systems
    Men and Systems
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    Men and Systems

    By James Allen

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    James Allen was a British philosophical writer and poet and a pioneer of the self-help movement. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most popular writers on spirituality, his many books comforting millions of readers with their simple, unpretentious wisdom about living a joyful life.

    “THE unceasing change, the insecurity, and the misery of life make it necessary to find some basis of certainty on which to rest if happiness and peace of mind are to be maintained. All science, philosophy, and religion are some many efforts in search of this permanent basis; all interpretations on the universe, whether from the material or spiritual side, are so many attempts to formulate some unifying principle or principles by which to reconcile the fluctuations and contradictions of life.” - James Allen
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG&D Media
    Release dateAug 11, 2019
    ISBN9781722523336
    Men and Systems
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    James Allen

    James Allen was a British philosophical writer and poet and a pioneer of the self-help movement. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most popular writers on spirituality, his many books comforting millions of readers with their simple, unpretentious wisdom about living a joyful life. Although Allen never achieved great fame or wealth, his works continue to influence people around the world, including the New Thought movement.

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      Men and Systems - James Allen

      Introduction

      The unceasing change, the insecurity and the mystery of life make it necessary to find some basis of certainty on which to rest if happiness and peace of mind are to be maintained. All science, philosophy, and religion are so many efforts in search of this permanent basis; all interpretations of the universe, whether from the material or spiritual side, are so many attempts to formulate some unifying principle or principles by which to reconcile the fluctuations and contradictions of life.

      It has been said that mathematics is the only exact science; that is, the only science that eternally works out true without a single exception. Yet mathematics is but the body of which ethics is the spirit. There is not a mathematical problem but has its ethical counterpart, and the spirit of ethics is as eternally exact as the form of mathematics.

      It is being discovered that all natural sciences are fundamentally mathematical. Even music—popularly considered to be as far removed from mathematics as possible—is now known to be strictly mathematical. The science of harmony revealed certain fixed tones which never vary in their relative proportions, and all of which can be numerically resolved. These tones, like the numbers which represent them, are eternally fixed, and though their combinations—also like the combinations of numbers—are infinite, a given combination will always produce the same result.

      This mathematical foundation in all things is the keystone in the temple of science, and when sciences are perfected they will be found to be in strict accordance with mathematical laws.

      In religion also there are this same mathematical certainty and exactitude, and this mathematical certainty constitutes the rock of ages, and the great peace, on which and in which the saints and sages have ever found rest from the stress and turmoil of life.

      Human life and evolution at present is the learning of those preliminary lessons which are leading the race toward the mastery and understanding of this basic or divine knowledge; for without such a permanent, exact, mathematical basis, no lesson could be learned. When human beings are spoken of as learning the lessons of God or of life, two things are inferred, namely—(1) a state of ignorance on the part of the learner, and (2) that there is some definite knowledge which he has to acquire. This is seen plainly in a child at school. Its lessons imply that there is a permanent principle of knowledge toward which it is progressing. Without such knowledge there could be no lessons.

      Thus when one speaks of erring men as learning the lessons of life, he infers, whether he realizes it or not, the existence of a permanent basis of knowledge toward the possession of which all men are moving.

      This basic principle, a knowledge of which the whole race will ultimately acquire, is best represented by the term Divine Justice. Human justice differs with every man according to his own light or darkness, but there can be no variation in that Divine Justice by which the universe is eternally sustained. Divine Justice is spiritual mathematics. As with figures and objects, whether simple or complex, there is a right and unvarying result, and no amount of ignorance or deliberate falsification can ever make it otherwise, so with every combination of thoughts or deeds, whether good or bad, there is an unvarying and inevitable consequence which nothing can avert.

      If this were not so; if we could have effect without cause, or consequence unrelated to act, experience could never lead to knowledge, there would be no foundation of security, and no lessons could be learned.

      Thus every effect has a cause, and cause and effect are in such intimate relationship as to leave no room for injustice to creep in. Nevertheless, there is ignorance, and, through ignorance, the doing of life’s lessons wrongly, and this doing of life’s sums wrongly is that error, or sin, which is the source of man’s sufferings. How often the child at school weeps because it cannot do its sums correctly! and older children in the school of life do the same thing when the sum of their actions has worked out in the form of suffering instead of happiness.

      The ground of certainty, then, on which we can securely rest amid all the incidents of life, is the mathematical exactitude of the moral law. The moral order of the universe is not, cannot, be disproportionate, for if it were, the universe would fall to pieces. If a brick house cannot stand unless it be built in accordance with certain geometrical proportions, how could a vast universe, with all its infinite complexities of form and motion, proceed in unbroken majesty from age to age unless guided by unerring and infallible justice?

      All the physical laws with which men are acquainted never vary in their operations. Given the same cause, there will always be the same effect. All the spiritual laws with which men are acquainted have, and must have, the same infallibility in their operations. Given the same thought or deed in a like circumstance, and the result will always be the same. Without this fundamental ethical justice there could be no human

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