Chapter 70: The Old Man's Longing
Science originates from philosophy, and at the same time, in turn influences people's views and opinions on the world, especially the materialist worldview, which requires three scientific foundations to be established.
Theory of Evolution, Thermodynamic Laws of Conservation of Energy, Mechanics.
The emergence of mechanics has led to mechanical materialism becoming an important trend of thought, allowing people to try for the first time to explain all human activities in the macroscopic sense, and to use mechanics to deconstruct the whole world.
The thermodynamic law of conservation of energy makes motion a mystery that does not appear out of thin air and has an invisible manipulation by the god God, and also provides an ideological basis for the immortality of matter and the immortality of energy and the transformation between energy and matter.
The theory of evolution makes it difficult for a god with a personality or a similar product to exist, and when man is not created by a god with a personality, then the perspective of judging history will not use the moral preaching of fixed personality and human nature to judge the merits and demerits, but can only flock to the direction of productive forces and production relations, which is similar to the coexistence of animals and plantsβthere are saints, gods, gods and other things that condense the personality and human nature, and human behavior must be evaluated by this cohesive personality and human morality.
The Tao has no personality, so it is unkind and regards all things as dogs, so it is different. The controversy between the Tao and the saints is probably a controversy between the impersonal pan-natural God and the Triune God, and if God has no personality, then there are not so many moral taboos of the old Catholic Church. The same is true of a saint, because he is a human being and not an unkind way of heaven and earth, so a person needs to be evaluated from the distance from the saint. How to evaluate a person requires a historical outlook and a world outlook, a world outlook that needs philosophy, and philosophy needs the feedback of the laws of scientific achievements, which is a circle that cannot be bypassed.
Chen Jian knew very well that if he wanted to change social relations, he must first change the economic base, and this had already begun in Min County and several coastal counties, and it will continue to continue.
This kind of change is not something he can control alone, and even if it is affected, it is difficult to make much change, but the change in worldview can be accelerated by using fame and everything accumulated before.
This is also one of the important reasons why he focused his energy on this in the capital, the affairs of Minjun are irreparable, even if he dies, those new forces in Minjun must also seek their own development and future, and those ideas and contradictions that have arisen will not die out because of the death of a few people. But in what he is doing now, it can effectively shorten the time it takes for people to change the way they perceive the world.
The journey of calcium carbide cyanide melt to urea and then to sheep with urea as the only nitrogen source can cross the gap between life and death and consolidate the worldview of the immortal conservation of matter.
The way of chloral hydrate sedative drugs can disrupt people's thinking about spirit, soul, emotion and even human personality, and overkill and prematurely make people fall into a confusion where material determines everything.
The path of acetylene bromide condensation acetaldehyde can break the debate between organic and inorganic and make people realize that the division between organic and inorganic is meaningless. Like acids and bases, these seemingly complex compounds also have something or functional groups that are similar to anhydrides and acids, and it is those things that determine their properties, rather than organic and inorganic, which is not too necessary, or this division cannot guide the current stage of research, thus reducing the other side's view to a sophistry division that classifies both humans and ducks as two-legged animals.
It's not impossible, it's not wrong, it's not absolutely right or wrong, but it doesn't make sense.
No meaning is not the same as wrong, but no meaning is the same as no meaning, which is important.
Once this gap is crossed, it is not only the progress of a single discipline, but also the huge social impact that can be caused by public opinion - there is nothing insurmountable in the world, and any theory of bloodline, solidification, cultivation, and family heritage will lose the basis for existence, and people will expect a society with a fair starting line to have the opportunity to jump from inorganic to organic, rather than being declared that this is an insurmountable gap. Most people also look forward to fairness at the beginning, and yearn for progressive tax, inheritance tax, equality, equality, freedom, and other things that sound fairer when people start from the beginning, and turn organic offspring into inorganic particles, and everyone starts together.
By taking advantage of the opportunity of Scientology or the light of fireflies passing through the darkness to think that the scorching sun was in the sky, the theory of evolution was used to pave the socialist idea of human sociality and the same species, as well as the community of destiny of the human race; Use chemistry to pave the way for the anti-absolute laissez-faire idea of starting point; The philosophical foundations of materialism are laid out with the laws of mechanics and conservation of energy in physics.
It may seem like a bad path, but the level of productivity at this time should be a shortcut to ideological enlightenment.
It is also a way out of the Age of Enlightenment, which is very different from the European Age of Enlightenment, which is detached from Christian theology and retro natural law.
Europe has a European way of enlightenment, here is the way of enlightenment, and the land of China on the other side of the ocean should also have a spontaneous way of enlightenment that conforms to its own tradition.
Different paths.
Same return.
Three thousand avenues, finally one.
Jian Chen was not sure if the path he had taken would be so crooked that it would be crooked to the sky, because there was no history to learn from now, so everything could only go on and let time judge right and wrong.
Just as Mr. Mu, who led him into the circle of the school palace many years ago, said when he didn't give him a word, just as Hu Lin, who was already sad and tired in Minjun and said goodbye to politics, said about him. Jian Chen speculated about the possible consequences to do, rather than not knowing the consequences, perhaps this is the reason for their concern.
It's just that Mr. Mu, who was already in his last years at this time, didn't think so much, and at the beginning of the debate between Jian Chen and the other party, he stood up to help Jian Chen as soon as possible.
And now, without Mr. Mu's knowledge, Jian Chen once again found this old gentleman who pretended to be the world and had carried Chen Jian.
Years have passed, and the old gentleman who had been coughing at the beginning is now even older, and the constant emergence of new things has made this old man who has been affected by various poisons strongly support his body, and only hope to live a few more years to see more novelty.
Jian Chen is not the closest person to serve on the side, but Mr. Mu regards Jian Chen Jian as his most proud disciple, and when Jian Chen stepped into the master again, the old man withdrew from the people around him.
Cloudy eyes glanced at Jian Chen, and his hoarse vocal cords let out a hehehe laugh.
"How sure are you?"
"Seventy percent."
The old gentleman smiled: "What you said is seventy percent, that is, you are confident, just like when you told me to electrolyze sodium." What did I do this old man this time? Use it quickly, I won't be able to last a few years, and you won't have a chance to use it if you want to. β
Jian Chen bowed his head, not knowing what to say, the old gentleman pointed to the chair next to him for Jian Chen to sit down, coughed for a while and said, "Actually, I'm glad that you accepted the other party's challenge, and I'm glad that you came to me for help." Because you have finally put your mind on this subject, not on society, and don't be violent about nature. β
The old gentleman took a sip of tea and said, "Study more problems and talk less about doctrines." Even if, as you say, one is production and the other is distribution, why don't you put more attention to production? You let me know that nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium can produce 800 catties of wheat in one acre of land! Eight hundred pounds! The same acre of land can feed four or five times as many people. But what about you? You made me see hope, the hope that there will be no more hunger in the world, and then I turned around and threw myself into the times. Isn't it good to be quiet, hide in the school palace, care about it in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and concentrate on learning? β
"At that time, even if there is a problem with the distribution, the leftovers will be enough to feed some people. One of your senior brothers died on the use of apatite to make phosphate fertilizer, which you discovered, but you regarded phosphorus as a step into the body, as a ladder to pour into this circle, and your mind was not here at all. β
Jian Chen didn't answer, nor did he explain any words to the old gentleman, he just listened silently for a long time before he said, "Mr. obviously knows, but he still regards me as a disciple." β
"You, you're just treating me in your own way, but I'm very useful. I don't want food, clothing, or fame, I just want to understand the world, I just want the world to be free of famine and war, and you are doing what I like, of course I like you as a disciple. β
The old gentleman glanced at Jian Chen with a smile, knowing in his heart that this was the last time he would talk to Jian Chen about those topics before, and after a lifetime, he changed the topic and asked, "Okay, don't talk about this." You're here to take some of your younger brothers and sisters with you, right? β
"Yes. When the disciple first apprenticed, he used a lot of money, knowledge, and the reputation of discovering new metals, as well as all kinds of material conditions and magical workshops in Mincheng, to start seducing the brothers and sisters, and also so that more brothers and sisters would follow me to Minjun a few years later. β
"To each his own, to each his own, and there is nothing wrong with that. Are you asking them to help you with this debate? β
"Yes."
"That's a good thing. People now say that in terms of understanding the world, the republic has the capital in the north and Min County in the south. The seminar held by your Soda Federation has caused a sensation every time, and many people have visited it, and in some cases, the place called 'Nanxue Palace' in Minjun has gone further and faster than here. But you're not enough, you have to lead this bit of essence of the Capital School Palace. Do you know, everyone in the Academy now says that the honor of Mr. Xuegong was granted to you at the beginning, and that was the most unwise choice, and you are the biggest traitor in the Academy. β
Jian Chen nodded and smiled, understanding what the old gentleman meant.
However, the old gentleman smiled slightly: "But for me, you, a disciple, have not betrayed to understand the world, explain the world, and change the world, then you are worthy of the name of Mr. Xuegong." The school palace is not this hundred acres of land, let alone the robe, but the twelve words on the sage temple at the time of the founding of the country. What is the difference between knowing the world, interpreting the world, and changing the world? β
Jian Chen got up and bowed again, and the old gentleman waved his hand and said, "You are going, I don't know when you will come back." I don't know if you won this debate before or after my funeral. At that time, I said that after death, I hoped that you would burn some books on my grave, but after all, I still hope to know a lot of things before I die. β
The old gentleman's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and he stared at Jian Chen and said, "I know that there is no result yet, but I believe that you must know the result." I don't know how you know, but I want to know. Want to know the world, want to know about the particles of matter, want to know about the smallest particles and the largest universe, want to know what the future will look like! Tell me! Tell me what you imagined, what you deduced, what you guessed, or how you came to know. β
Jian Chen glanced at this old man who was in his last years but was rejuvenated by his desire to understand the world, this old man who had helped him take his first step, this old man who cared about the world's hunger and war, thinking about everything he knew, but finally lowered his head.
"Sir, there is no one who is born to know. I believe in experience, not in innate reason. Therefore, at this time, I don't know, I can only go through repeated attempts and then make bold assumptions, carefully verify and summarize. What you want to know is exactly what I want to know. β
Mr. Mu looked at Jian Chen, looked at Jian Chen's lowered head, and looked at Jian Chen's eyes that he didn't dare to look at directly, and his originally bright eyes gradually lost a little.
For a long time, he sighed softly.
"That's right. It's good. β