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or physics; not much of it can be explained by the 

 doctrine of chance. There are reasons behind rea- 

 sons. You may give good physiological reasons why 

 the heart beats, why the liver secretes bile, why th? 

 digestive processes go on and our food nourishes us, 

 but can you find the mind by dissecting the brain or 

 connect mind with matter? 



Mysticism belongs to the sphere of our religious 

 emotions, and when we read natural phenomena 

 through these emotions we are mystical. We cannot 

 say that the course of evolution has been directed, 

 and we cannot say it goes by chance. The changes of 

 the seasons are not directed; the circuit of the wa- 

 ters from the earth, through the sea to the clouds 

 and back to the earth, is not directed; the orbs in 

 their courses are not directed; the sap in the trees, 

 the blood in our veins, are not directed; neither are 

 these things by chance. "An inward perfecting 

 principle" is the divinity that shapes the ends of all 

 organisms. 



Many scientific men are so shy of teleology that 

 they tend to the other extreme and land in a world 

 of chance. 



Now, if man and all the other forms of life are the 

 result of chance, then Chance is a very good god and 

 should be written with a capital. No matter what 

 we call the power out of which the universe flows, or 

 with which it is identified, it is a veritable Deus. 



We cannot affirm that we are the result of chance, 



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