OF SAINTHOOD 



the laws of his physical welfare un- 

 known and uncared for. 



The second movement begins six 

 centuries before Christ in the inquiring 

 mind of the West, which is always char- 

 acterized by intense curiosity about 

 Nature. This movement is the search 

 for natural law. Its rapid progress 

 among the Greeks terminates with the 

 fall of Greece. It is expressed in Ca- 

 to's reply to Scipio: "My wisdom con- 

 sists in the fact that I follow Nature, 

 the best of guides, as I would a God and 

 am loyal to her commands/' After 

 nineteen centuries it revives with Co- 

 pernicus and Galileo and culminates 

 in Darwin. Man is again perceived as 

 a part of Nature : in the study of Na- 

 ture man finds intellectual delight; in 

 the laws of Nature man finds his physi- 

 cal well-being; man through Nature 

 becomes the redeemer of physical man. 

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