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                                        %I AND THOU 731004

     The scientist speaks the word 'It'  to the object  of
analysis; but 'It' is not the full reality.  'It' is not a
primary word.  Primary words pertain to relationships; not
to elements. The scientist is not an 'I' which is separate
from the  'It'   which  is  analyzed.  Both participate in
relationships with essential uncertainties.  The nature of
the 'I' and the nature of the 'It' depend on the nature of
the relationship in which they become known.  By tradition
the  scientist considers the elements as primary, and that
the  nature  of  reality is to be known in  terms  of  the
primary elements.  Such  a perspective ignores the primacy
of knowledge-in-relation.

     Knowledge  comes through the speaking of the  primary
words  'I-Thou'  and 'I-It'.   The primary words  intimate
relationships which are reciprocal.   There is no real 'I'
in  isolation.   The nature of the 'I'  depends  upon  the
primary words which are spoken.

     "The  primary word 'I-Thou'  can only be spoken  with
the whole being."

     "The primary word "I-It' can never be spoken with the
whole being."

     Those who form the habit of speaking only the primary
word 'I-It'  cease to live in failing to speak the primary
word "I-Thou'.  Cause and effect  dominate  the nature  of
reality for those who speak only the primary word 'I-It'--
-and real persons are not.

     The  state  of  consciousness of those who habitually
speak  the primary word 'I-It'---is quite  different  than
the state of consciousness of those who commonly speak the
primary word 'I-Thou'.

     "The 'I'  of the primary word 'I-Thou'  is  different
than the 'I' of the primary word 'I-It'".

     The natural scientist presumes the prior existence of
a nature of the reality which  is approached for analysis.
The  nature of reality is presumably  independent  of  the
annalist  and his or her way of participating  in reality.
Via  collusion  the essential uncertainties   of life  are
not real, and so life is not real.

     The  crisis  in  the  nature of and  role  of  modern
science has its roots  in  scientists  and technocrats who
compulsively speak  only the primary  word  'I-It'.    The
crisis  may be resolved only by attractive  scientists who
are free and choose to speak the primary word 'I-Thou'.

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