Early Writings — Page 30
30 THE questions in the negative, it would become manifestly evident that you are in clear denial of hundreds of branches of knowledge, and thousands of credible pieces of information and authentic facts regarding these various fields of knowledge, which more or less benefit almost every nation of the world. I trust, however, that this is perhaps not the purport of your statement. What you most probably intend to state is that the possibility of man commit- ting errors and misjudgements in his investigations is plausible, but not that man has been created, inherently by nature, in such a manner as restricts him from acquiring any information that is true. For you must have seen or heard of such people or even read about them in books of history as were not free of error or misjudgement in ‘all their conclusions and judgements, yet their knowledge in many areas has proven to be categorically sound and true. Moreover, hundreds of investigations that have been con- ducted in the past or are being conducted today are such that it is absolutely impossible to find flaw with them. And, this you can surely confirm by looking at hundreds of pieces of information which relate to the natural sciences, mathematics and morality. Nature has provided all of the means that are required by any per- son to obtain the entire range of information that man has so far been able to obtain or will ever obtain in the future. Now, the more man continues to develop these means on an individual and collective level, by continuing to refine them and make them more effective through the best use of his capacities, the more he will continue to succeed in the acquisition of sound knowledge through investigations into nature. Having read this brief statement of mine, I hope that you will