EVOLUTION AND RELIGION 



a monistic philosophy of the universe by which all 

 phenomena are referred to a single law of the conser- 

 vation of physical energy. And this passion for unity 

 is but another name for the wilfulness of the intellect 

 which tries to satisfy itself by giving a name to what- 

 ever is not comprehended. A monistic philosophy may 

 be a great feat of the mind, but it must remain bar- 

 ren because it ignores or smoothes out all the mani- 

 fold differences between spirit and matter, between 

 the living and the dead. 



Unless it can be indisputably proved that man, 

 with his infinite variety of thoughts and emotions, is 

 but an aggregation of mechanical atoms held together 

 and moved by physical forces — an hypothesis for 

 which there is not the slightest proof — , there seems 

 to be no necessity to deny the existence of a spiritual 

 world not subject to the laws of mechanical energy 

 or circumscribed by the space limitations of material 

 or electrical substances. 



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