BACONIAN PHILOSOPHY AND ITS END

Bacon's Philosophy of modern atomism is the philosophy of this modern age. Bacon's design was the attainment of man's dominion over nature as man's ordained destiny through systematic, organized research of science, for material advantage, for mankind in general, as the actual business of man on earth, and as the express, exclusive command of God to Adam. Can any one in the world reconcile this view with that of the revealed religion? Is the pursuit of material advantage of this world the actual business of man, and is as the express and exclusive command of God to man according to any revealed religion. Christianity, Islam etc.? But the wonder is that the pursuit of moral philosophy according to Bacon is the persistence of man in Adam's transgression that of tasting the fruit of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man according to Bacon, did in a vain and impious attempt take to the pursuit of moral philosophy merely to give himself the law, and thus deviated from the course fixed for him by God. I might be suspected of playing some conjuring trick on the understanding of the reader, since any one who knows some thing of the religious philosophy can at once see the clear antipathy existing between the philosophy of Bacon and that of the revealed religion. How a philosopher of the caliber of Bacon could have thought of uttering such things. Not only Bacon but the entire world today is the victim of similar misunderstandings, but go read the works of Bacon which fortunately for us are still extant in the world, in the clearest of terms, and see that religion is based on moral philosophy.

Indeed, neither the name of Bacon nor his works are known today, yet the fruit of his philosophy can in this world be seen flourishing in the form of this Baconian, modern progress. And indeed again whether the philosophy of Bacon is known or is not known, the effects of this Baconian progress are there to produce exactly the apostatical, and immoral results of the original philosophy of Bacon. This modern Baconian progress uprising from Baconian philosophy is accordingly continuous, systematic, organized, science-guided, ever-increasing and infinite. And because it is continuous, systematic and organized, therefore, it has entangled this mankind in the economico-industrial set up like a net. And because it is ever-increasing and infinite, it is bound to occupy gradually more and more of the mind and time of man, expelling gradually and proportionally every other thought including the thought of faith and the other world, to a complete, final expulsion.

Any one can observe this gradual transition. This progress is not only unbalanced and extreme, but also it is unproportional to and incongruous with the basic design of creation. Having devoured up all the natural resources of energy in earth with alarmingly unproportional rapidity, and in unproportionally huge amounts, it has obliged this mankind --- which is entangled in the industrial net ---to adopt the hazardous atomic energy to the ruinous end.

The effort of Bacon in misinterpreting the Bible is clearly comprehensible, while the attempts of the Christian world at finding compatibility between Bacon's philosophy and the teachings of Gospel are not. The argument of the followers of the Quran to seek compatibility between this modern progress and the teachings of the Quran is a deep-rooted and fatal misunderstanding. The object of the contemplation of the works of God, as well as the basic purpose of science in this progress being nothing but material utility, is clearly at variance with Quran's view of this point. So also is the object of man's dominion over natural forces. The signs in the Quran that exhort to the contemplation of the works of God and are numerous in the Quran, are always and at once cited by the Muslims in the justification of the material modern progress. Can any living man, however, point to a single allusion anywhere throughout these signs of the Quran about Fikr-fil-Aayaat, toward the factor of material utility associated with the contemplation of the works of God. Rather the object of the contemplation of the works of God according to the Quran is to find out the purpose of creation, and the argument of the certainty of resurrection, and the day of judgement, and the life in the next world, and indeed the glorification of the Creator. Again the dominion of man over nature in the modern progress is basically for the material utility, whereas, in the Quran, in the signs therein regarding the conquest of nature (Taskhir-il-Kaayinaat) it is Allah always who claims the right of having subjected this universe to man, and thereby does but demand gratitude of man for the kindness, without ever so much as a hint at either emulation or material utility etc. One finds himself at a loss to understand how the Muslims read all that which is in the Quran extant against this temporal world and its wealth, as if nothing such ever existed in the Quran. If the Gospel stands at radical opposition to Bacon's philosophy and its modern progress, the Quran, it must be known, stands at logger-heads with Bacon's Philosophy as well as this modern progress. The spirit of peculiar other worldliness of Christ can be seen to eternally permeates through the basic soul of the Quran, and the greatest proof is found in the sayings and life of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) in this respect. The necessity of this age is to rediscover that spirit, that is the spirit of otherworldliness in the Quran. The Quran never was meant to be a book of materialism. Let the sanctity of the Quran be observed. It is but one step, however, now, that the true reality of this Baconian progress will appear in the form of the atomic hell to clear all the misunderstandings of the people.

That Bacon's philosophy is exact antithesis to the philosophy of revealed religion can be seen in the facts that no revealed religion has ever given out the pursuit of Natural Philosophy (science) for material advantage as the actual business of man, and as the express and exclusive command of God to Adam. Religion on the other hand has depreciated the exclusive pursuit of world. Trial of man on earth based on moral philosophy in the light of the knowledge of good and evil is the basis of every revealed in religion in direct contrariness to Baconian view. Dominion for man is out of question. That title belongs to God alone. Blake was not amiss in saying "If what Bacon says is right, What Christ says is false". Pride in man's dominion and engrossment in material utility are the characteristics of this Baconian age. The sense of morality has lost significance. Which of the religions would allow this.

Men today are generally ignorant of the philosophy of Bacon. Most have not even heard of his very name. But it makes no difference. The fruit of that philosophy exists in the world as a very conspicuous and decisive factor in the form of modern progress. Man's complete defection from the Creator, and the proud, universal attitude of man's dominion over nature, and man's complete confidence in science instead of God, and his pressing interest in and dependence on ever-increasing and infinite scientific research and its material progress, and the fact of proportional decrease in man's thought of God and the other world, and engrossment in the thought of food and wealth at the expense of the thought of faith and religion, and the insurmountable difficulty experienced in the revival of faith and religion, are the clear signs of the effects of Baconian philosophy to show manifestly the error of those who think of any compatibility or any possibility of a compromise between religion and this modern progress, and have hopes of escape from the logical end of this Baconian process. The final proof is, that no religion, Christianity or Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism will be able to save this mankind from the resultant flames of the atomic hell that now is fast approaching, if this peculiar process of Baconian progress, continued, and no amount of repentance will be of any avail to any one in the fire of atomic bombs under the radiations of atomic-energy-for-so-called-peace. The giant atumbumb will prove too formidable a rival for man to contest with, and the misinterpreted and misunderstood Quran and Bible will prove inefficacious. Either perfect religion now for safety, or modern progress for destruction. The fact is that the basic purpose of religion and Baconian philosophy collide irreconcilably.

In its own way, however, the Baconian philosophy and its modern progress has proved a failure in achieving its ends. The idea of man's dominion over nature has eventually proved to be a failure. Man who a few years hence was pampered by the thought of having more power than all the legendary gods of Ulympia combined, today stands before the exasperated nature's all devouring trident of atomic annihilation as a helpless diminutive trembling in readiness to be consumed by the fire of atomic bombs and atomic radiations without any means of protection any way, anywhere. The idea of man's dominion after all has been exposed. Nor has the appetite of man been appeased in any way. Self-sufficiency has proved to be no more than a mirage. The process of more production has appeared to work on the principle of fission chain reaction. More production means simply more consumption, more consumption and more demand in endless succession and ever-increasing proportions. More demand and more production to infinity, and final expulsion of heath, wealth and life. Baconian view of more production has proved to be false and destructive. Let now the philosophers and the scientists think on the lines of seeing cancer and Baconian philosophy in one group in the light of the identity existing between their basic characteristics and their final destiny.

If the Baconian progress continues, then there is no other alternative for this mankind but either to die under the hails of atomic bombs suddenly and unfortunately, deservedly, or to decay in a slow lingering, miserable manner under the radiations of atomic-energy-for-so-called-peace. All the expectations of mankind in general in the future propensities of science for outlets in the enclosure of atomic energy, as well as the traditional optimism of the scientist in the possibilities of discoveries in nuclear science that may provide the remedies for the atomic ills, are false dreams that interpret nothing other than the flames of atomic hell ablaze. I say this on knowledge that of perfect science. The entire situation of the atomic problem of the world, scientifically, philosophically, logically and theologically is before me in a microscopic form. And I warn you that no protection, whatsoever, will ever be found against either the atomic bombs or the atomic radiations, for it is neither the weapon of war by nature, nor it is the energy consequently. It is the retributive result of the process of the Baconian philosophy of this world, and is the wrath of Allah enkindled against a greedy, slandering brood of world-seekers that believe in the eternity of this Baconian process of wealth-accumulation. That this Baconian progress is bound to perish due to its unnaturalness is certain either due to dearth of energy, or under the hails of the atomic bombs or under the swarms of the deadly radiation of the atomic energy for peace. These formidable, world-wide, science-guided monuments of Baconian progress will disappear like bubbles as if by magic wand, and alas, along with the mosques, churches, temples, scriptures, Bible, Quran and all. Here the question is, whether this mankind will be able to bale out of this Baconian plane or will it go down into the flames along with it; the atomic hell being the logical, scientific and inevitable end of Baconian progress.

This Baconian progress is continuous, ever-increasing and infinite. It is bound to gradually occupy the entire mind and time of man, expelling gradually and proportionally every other thought including that of faith and the other world. Now the followers of every religion on earth, the Muslims in particular do exault in the compatibility of their religion with this modern Baconian progress, taking it only as mere progress, and knowing it not as peculiarly the Baconian kind of progress, which increasing its occupation of man's mind and time gradually to infinity could only be allowed by a religion willing to accept its own exile from man's mind and time. It is impossible to call this progress to a halt at any stage before the end of its process in ultimate ruin if it were possible, this mankind would not have been obliged to adopt the atomic energy inspite of their knowledge of its eventual ruin And this modern knowledge is an Erastian curse and a cancer of minds. And the people of East are but artificial magnet in this Baconian machine to become inert with the cessation of the Western current. This progress is now doomed. If atomic energy is not adopted, this progress would vanish without energy; if atomic energy is adopted, atomic energy would destroy it. The question is whether the pilot bales out before the plane has caught fire.

Atom to atomic bomb, atomism to atomic hell in the course of Baconian continuous, endless economico-industrial progress is an established, inexorable process. Neither the Gospel nor the Quran could consent to such a philosophy. The most urgent necessity of the present time is to differentiate between the views of the modern Baconian philosophy and the Quran on the object of contemplation of the works of God, and the subject of the conquest of nature. Essential thus is the study of the Baconian philosophy of modern atomism and this modern progress, in particular reference to their peculiar characteristics in comparison to the Quran, lest the followers of the Quran inspite of their hearty allegiance to that book fall into the flames of the blazing atomic jehannah both in this transient world and in the other eternal world, due merely to their misunderstandings. The most disastrous and ignorant notion of the people of this age is that this modern progress will go on increasing infinitely. No but its process now is complete and its end nigh at hand. Ostretching could now be the habit only of those doomed to a painful end in the burning flames of the atomic hell. atomic bombs cannot be kept leashed eternally, nor a universal protection against radiation appears to be a possibility. Await the ever-increasing and wide-spread hatred of atomic phenomenon. The More is known, the greater will be the hatred. And await the dwindling of natural resources, then see the misery, disgrace, pains and mutual conflict of this human race turned unhuman as a result of an unnatural philosophy. Heart-rending thought is the fact of mankind's universal ignorance of atomic science. Politicians ignorant. Scholars ignorant. Theologians ignorant. All the world ignorant excepting a few physicists. This is a mortifying fact. And as an ill omen too.

Supposing this world exists by the time the energy sources are exhausted, and there remains only the atomic energy. The atomic powers will then be sole dealers as well as leaders of the world. This thought will surely spur the non-atomic powers in the atomic race well before. Both the atomic and the non-atomic powers, however, will be mistaken. Both will tend to the same conclusion, namely, the nuclear ruin. That world then will be too miserable to live in. That indeed will be an atomic hell of cancer-ridden and miserable chimeras.

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BACONIAN PHILOSOPHY AND ITS END