Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    environment of each hi-anch of that common race stock. I liad, therefore, to ])reserve tliis liistorical uniformity as far as ])ossil4e, and, at the same time, see that the variety naturally arose from it, so that it expressed the modern varietif'S of tlie old ideas, nniform in all ages. 3. —I had also to rememl)er that in proposing to use bnreans, based on organised ideas, each of which was represented by colour, the final proposed bureau was not decked ont in all the colours of the rainl)f>w. The colours finally to be shown in the bni'eaus had to l)e of a moderate tone and number. In the charts showing the cf)mbinations of the ideas before they reached the form of a bnrean, I had, on the other hand, to have as many rich and strongly marked colours as possible. The bnreans are the result, the charts indicate the processes whereby this resnlt is readied. Two of the charts are meta- physical, two astronomical, two biological, two historic, two sociological, and two individual. They are arranged so as to show the steady flow of fhe root ideas into the actual world from their source in the constitution of nature, as revealed by onr instruments, etc., daring the last century. 4. --I had also to see that, wherever possilile, any combina tion of ideas was antomatically accompanied by a combination of colours, that boi-e some relation to (^ach other.