investigate facts alone, because the facts which are subject to our
investigation are INNUMERABLE (in the definite sense of that word),-
-innumerable. Before we proceed to investigate facts, we must have
a theory on the foundation of which these or those facts can be
inquired into, i.e., selected from the incalculable quantity.

And this theory exists, and is even very definitely expressed,
although many of the workers in contemporary science do not know it,
or often pretend that they do not know it. Exactly thus has it
always been with all prevailing and guiding doctrines. The
foundations of every doctrine are always stated in a theory, and the
so-called learned men merely invent further deductions from the
foundations once stated. Thus contemporary science is selecting its
facts on the foundation of a very definite theory, which it
sometimes knows, sometimes refuses to know, and sometimes really
does not know; but the theory exists.

The theory is as follows: All mankind is an undying organism; men
are the particles of that organism, and each one of them has his own
special task for the service of others. In the same manner, the
cells united in an organism share among them the labor of fight for
existence of the whole organism; they magnify the power of one
capacity, and weaken another, and unite in one organ, in order the
better to supply the requirements of the whole organism. And
exactly in the same manner as with gregarious animals,--ants or
bees,--the separate individuals divide the labor among them. The
queen lays the egg, the drone fructifies it; the bee works his whole
life long. And precisely this thing takes place in mankind and in
human societies. And therefore, in order to find the law of life
for man, it is necessary to study the laws of the life and the