The true nature of soul is right knowledge right faith and right conduct. The soul so long as it is subject to transmigration is undergoing evolution and involution.
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature career and consequences of human values.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing and as it now appears unlimited ascent of man to knowledge and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.